Value in the Visual: On Public Injecting, Visual Methods and Their Potential for Informing Policy (and Change)
Value in the Visual: On Public Injecting, Visual Methods and Their Potential for Informing Policy (and Change)
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视觉价值：关于公众注入、视觉方法及其为政策（和变革）提供信息的潜力
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2009
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R. Coomber
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作者：
Stephen Parkin;R. Coomber
本文关注的是可视化方法在定性研究中的应用，以及它们如何被开发和应用到一系列应用卫生（和其他政策）目的的环境中。传统上，视觉方法被用作记录个人、群体和文化的数据和表现的辅助手段。由于它们产生于一种深深植根于社会/文化人类学领域的研究传统，因此在更注重政策的研究或更具实际效益的研究中，它们在很大程度上被低估了。然而，视觉研究有可能以这种方式被利用，特别是在行为和其他健康领域，在这些领域，可以为“传统”基于文本的研究结果提供“附加值”。本文试图证明这种潜力，并提供了“附加值”的例子，具体参考注射毒品使用者在城市位置的公共环境的研究。
This paper concerns the application of visual methods within qualitative research and the ways in which they can be developed and applied to a range of settings for applied health (and other policy) purposes. Traditionally visual methods have been used as adjunct means to record data and representations of individuals, groups and cultures. Having emerged from a research tradition deeply rooted within the field of social/cultural anthropology they have been largely understated in more policy-orientated research or that with more practical benefits. Visual research however has potential to be utilised in this way, particularly in behavioural and other health areas, in which ‘added-value’ to ‘traditional’ text-based research findings can be provided. This paper seeks to demonstrate this potential and provide examples of ‘added-value’ with specific reference to a study of public environments appropriated by injecting drug users in an urban location.