Author:

• MARIA LÚCIA MAGALHÃES BOSI - Maria Lúcia Magalhães Bosi - Universidade Federal do Ceará - <malubosi@ufc.br>

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Abstract:

This article provides an overview regarding the nuclear themes in the debate about the qualitative health research approach, in the Brazilian scientific context and more specifically in collective health field. Based upon earlier productions, the author starts defining some central concepts in the analysis undertaken. Then, combining the literature on this subject with her academic praxis, examines the current status of this tradition of research, pointing out an extensive set of challenges. The discussion focuses on each one of them, moving between different plans: epistemic, ethical, operational, the training in this approach and its status in the scientific field. Considering various questions and based on empirical examples, the analysis shows that, despite the expansion observed in qualitative research and its contributions to public health, this approach still faces many challenges to consolidate its status. The situation demands investments in dialogue with the others approaches which form the core area. Despite these challenges, the author concludes pointing out the possibility of new pacts in public health field in order to build innovations in scientific evaluation considering the diversity and complexity of the collective health field and its objects.

Keywords:

qualitative research public health health systems methodology science

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