Network: Qualitative Research

Excerpt from the website

"The use of qualitative research to improve reproductive health is the focus of this issue of Network. Such research is guiding research and program design, complementing findings from quantitative studies, and exploring issues that have received little study. Highlighted in this issue are selected research initiatives that illustrate how this qualitative approach is expanding our insight into numerous reproductive health areas. Qualitative research is, for example, examining barriers to both the use of existing contraceptives and the potential use of new contraceptive products. It also identifies factors that impede the provision or use of services designed to prevent, diagnose, and manage sexually transmitted infections; seeks ways to better identify and serve victims of domestic violence; and helps us explore why maternal mortality rates remain unacceptably high in so many settings."

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