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"Qualitative Methods in Environmental Health Research"
by: Phil Brown, Brown University (2003)
Published on: 11/25/2002

Qualitative methods are especially important to community environmental health research, since they provide a way to produce community narratives that give voice to individuals and that characterize the community in a full and complex fashion. This article first traces the legacy of qualitative research in environmental health, and then uses a case study of the author's expreiences studying the Woburn childhood leukemia cluster in order to provide personal and scholarly insights on qualitative approaches.

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