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Qualitative Methods in Public Health is a practical, "hands-on" guide for use by social scientists, public health specialists and research teams interested in using qualitative methods to study sexual and reproductive health. It covers theory, research design and methodology, data collection, data analysis, writing, and research dissemination. A comprehensive and clear text, it is written largely in non-academic language. It incorporates a unique focus on reproductive and sexual health examples, and other practical examples from community medicine, nursing, HIV/AIDS and other fields. The guide also includes:
The field guide is written by Priscilla R. Ulin, Elizabeth T. Robinson, and Elizabeth E. Tolley of Family Health International. It is currently being used by researchers in more than 120 countries around the world. In addition, it is being used as the principal textbook in research methods courses at leading universities. To obtain a copy of the English version: Developing country researchers: Please send us an email and provide us with your full name, title, organization, mailing address, phone and email. NOTE: FHI has a limited number of copies available for distribution at no cost to developing country researchers, but we'd like to know who is using the book and for what purpose. Please provide us with names, titles and email and mailing addresses for each recipient for whom you are requesting a copy. Researchers in the U.S., Canada, Australia and Europe: The English edition is available for U.S. $57.00 directly from the publisher, Jossey Bass. For other languages:
Comments on Qualitative Methods in Public Health "An indispensable guide for public health practitioners and others who need to use qualitative methods. Its clear presentation and refreshing absence of jargon makes it highly accessible to all wishing to make effective use of qualitative methods." — John Cleland, Centre for Population Studies, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine "For the past two years, public health students in our graduate level qualitative research methods class have used this book as their text. It has greatly improved their research projects, from the first step of developing a conceptual framework through analysis, interpretation and write-up of data. This is a terrific book." — Dr. Margaret Bentley, PhD, Professor of Nutrition and Associate Dean for Public Health, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill "I used Qualitative Methods in Public Health: A Field Guide to Applied Research alongside James Beebe's Rapid Assessment Process: An Introduction to teach the rudiments of qualitative methods and perspectives to non-health personnel. It guided our rapid assessment of social change and public health in a decaying administrative center in Papua New Guinea. Its reader-friendly tone helped my Papua New Guinean students and colleagues learn the language of qualitative research and later to conduct rapid assessments of HIV and AIDS peer-education needs in their own communities." — Lawrence J. Hammar, PhD, Senior Research Fellow, Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research |
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A Spanish translation of the field guide was published in 2006 by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). It can be ordered for U.S. $30.00 ($24.00 in Latin America and the Caribbean) via the 
A Chinese-language edition has been published by the Kunming Medical College in Kunming, China, with support from the Ford Foundation. This version can be downloaded