Qualitative research and Occupational Medicine

Qualitative research and Occupational Medicine.

[Qualitative research and evidence-based medicine].

Qualitative research originates from anthropology and social medicine, it has been introduced into medical field only for ten odd years. As medicine owns social humanity characteristics, its research method should not be limited to the traditional quantitative research for cause-effect relationship, and the advantages of qualitative research is just that it focuses on those unexplained and unan...

Occupational Medicine and Hygiene: applied research in Italy

The goal of Occupational Medicine and Hygiene is that of ensuring safety, health and well-being at workplaces, mainly assessing and preventing existing occupational risks. Scientific research in this field can provide useful arguments and further evidence upon which effective, efficient and sustainable policies and preventive measures have to be chosen and applied by the occupational physician ...

Occupational Medicine Occupational asthma

Occupational asthma may be defined as asthma induced by exposure to an inhaled agent (or agents) in the workplace. Its presentation is sometimes dramatic. Occupational exposure to platinum salts, for example, has been known to induce asthma in over 50% of an exposed workforce. For those affected, the consequences are often devastating, while the economic effects for an industry may be no less p...

What qualitative research has taught us about occupational stress.

While many reviews of job stress and the stressor–strain relationship have been conducted, such reviews typically focus exclusively on quantitative data. In the current paper, we review qualitative studies on occupational stress that met two criteria: (1) the studies employed qualitative methods; (2) the stressors, strains and/or coping strategies were grouped into identifiable, higher-order ca...