AIDS: Methodological problems in studying its prevention and spread
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Auteurs : E. Maxine Ankrah [Ouganda]Source :
- Social Science & Medicine [ 0277-9536 ] ; 1989.
Descripteurs français
- Wicri :
- geographic : Ouganda.
- topic : Collecte de données, épidémiologie, Soins de santé, Conférence internationale, Santé génésique, Sciences sociales, Stockholm.
English descriptors
- KwdEn :
- Action research, African countries, African health, Aids, Aids cases, Aids patients, Aids prevention, Aids research, Ankrah, Belief systems, Bleek, Central african countries, Considerable response errors, Data collection, Data collection process, Data management, Disease control, Economic factors, Economic impact, Epidemiologic, Epidemiologic research, Epidemiology, Ethical issues, Feasible alternative, Great import, Guinea pigs, Health care, Heterosexual, Heterosexual transmission, Human beings, Human subjects, Immunodeficiency syndrome, Indirect costs, Infection, Interdisciplinary collaboration, Internal conflicts, International conference, Joint efforts, Kinship networks, Latin america, Legal rights, Local people, Longitudinal studies, Medical specialists, Methodological, Methodological approaches, Methodological problems, Methodology, Much epidemiology, National populations, Nonrepresentative samples, Other hand, Panos institute, Particular community, Policy impact, Political conditions, Political sensibilities, Preliminary results, Relevant factors, Reproductive health, Research agenda, Research agendas, Research budgets, Research design, Research designs, Research exercise, Research triangle institute, Researcher, Risk groups, Risky behavior, Scientific rigor, Serological studies, Seroprevalence, Seroprevalence data, Seroprevalence surveys, Sexual behavior, Social factors, Social phenomenon, Social relations, Social science research, Social sciences, Social scientists, Special groups, Stockholm, Study designs, Such data, Surveillance data, Third world countries, Total population, Traditional healers, Uganda.
- Teeft :
- Action research, African countries, African health, Aids, Aids cases, Aids patients, Aids prevention, Aids research, Ankrah, Belief systems, Bleek, Central african countries, Considerable response errors, Data collection, Data collection process, Data management, Disease control, Economic factors, Economic impact, Epidemiologic, Epidemiologic research, Epidemiology, Ethical issues, Feasible alternative, Great import, Guinea pigs, Health care, Heterosexual, Heterosexual transmission, Human beings, Human subjects, Immunodeficiency syndrome, Indirect costs, Infection, Interdisciplinary collaboration, Internal conflicts, International conference, Joint efforts, Kinship networks, Latin america, Legal rights, Local people, Longitudinal studies, Medical specialists, Methodological, Methodological approaches, Methodological problems, Methodology, Much epidemiology, National populations, Nonrepresentative samples, Other hand, Panos institute, Particular community, Policy impact, Political conditions, Political sensibilities, Preliminary results, Relevant factors, Reproductive health, Research agenda, Research agendas, Research budgets, Research design, Research designs, Research exercise, Research triangle institute, Researcher, Risk groups, Risky behavior, Scientific rigor, Serological studies, Seroprevalence, Seroprevalence data, Seroprevalence surveys, Sexual behavior, Social factors, Social phenomenon, Social relations, Social science research, Social sciences, Social scientists, Special groups, Stockholm, Study designs, Such data, Surveillance data, Third world countries, Total population, Traditional healers, Uganda.
Abstract
This paper outlines some problems in conducting AIDS research in developing countries, discusses the impact of the socio-cultural setting on study efforts, and emphasizes the need for adopting methodological approaches that are highly sensitive to the environment. The importance of seeing AIDS as a disease that effects humans not merely biologically, but also socially—in terms of their conceptions of sexual behavior and their belief systems of disease, illness and sickness—is considered. The potential of scientists to disregard this facet in the study of AIDS is stressed. The imperatives for interdisciplinary collaboration between the medical and social scientists are examined to argue that without combining research agendas, significant variables will be ignored in the search for ways to control AIDS. Special attention is given to the limitations of several methods that are employed by medical and social science researchers, including research designs, sampling, data collection and analysis, to suggest that with AIDS research these may be difficult to operationalize. The ethical implications of some of these are weighed. The interaction of economic and political conditions of the context with research activity is explored. Suggestions are given which take cognizance of the fact that it is human beings and Third World conditions, as well as the complexities of HIV and AIDS, that make AIDS research so problematic.
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DOI: 10.1016/0277-9536(89)90275-X
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