Quantitative Research on the Healthcare Economic Policy for Hearing Impairment

Abstract

The second part of the research on financing social inclusion of the hearing impaired is based on quantitative verification of the findings made in the first qualitative part of the research. The data for the verification was collected from a survey. The method used for quantitative verification of the qualitative research result is confirmatory factor analysis. This method is a type of structural equation modeling. The idea behind this approach is that a researcher verifies if the model built by her/him fits the data collected to confirm the theoretical model. In our case, the model is developed based on qualitative research. Literature suggests that in many cases qualitative research helps to build apriori models. Another possible approach to prepare the input is theoretical model building. However, it is not relevant to this study.