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Reviewing Empirical Examples of Health Research Using Naturally Occurring Data

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Using Naturally Occurring Data in Qualitative Health Research

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Pedagogical textbooks designed to teach their readers how to do research can sometimes feel de-contextualised from the practice of research. To overcome this and to demonstrate how naturally occurring data can contribute to health and healthcare practice, this chapter shows how naturally occurring data works. In this chapter, we provide some detailed examples of health research we have been involved in that has used naturally occurring data and reflexively discuss the benefits, the challenges, and the findings from these studies.

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  1. Department of Social and Political Science, University of Chester, Chester, Cheshire, UK

    Nikki Kiyimba

  2. School of Education, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA

    Jessica Nina Lester

  3. The Greenwood Institute of Child Health, University of Leicester, Leicester, Leicestershire, UK

    Michelle O’Reilly

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Kiyimba, N., Lester, J.N., O’Reilly, M. (2019). Reviewing Empirical Examples of Health Research Using Naturally Occurring Data. In: Using Naturally Occurring Data in Qualitative Health Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94839-3_12

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