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Paradigms Of Health

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In chapter 5 “Researching Health: Knowledge Paradigms, Methodologies, and Methods” focuses on the paradigms own health studies. It mainly revolves around the beliefs and assumption about what knowledge is and how is formed. Paradigms also revolves around established observations. Furthermore, there are three aspects of of research and inquiry of health studies such as the positivism, idealism and realism. Positivism involves developing general principles, belief and knowledge that can be directly experienced and verified between independent observers. Idealism is an approach, which concerns an individual’s analysis of the world. This approach would include methods such as, open-ended interviews, detailed observations and analyses. The third

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