Greetings, and welcome to a new issue of Child Survival Technical Support’s (CSTS+) Bookmarks! This edition of Bookmarks! features a new resource on qualitative research— particularly how it relates to reproductive health.  

Family Health International’s Quarterly Health Bulletin, “Network” is now online. This issue (Vol. 22, No. 2) of the bulletin focuses on qualitative research.

Below is a brief summary of the issue:

Network: Qualitative Research Vol. 22, No. 2, 2002

The use of qualitative research to improve reproductive health is the focus of this issue of Network. Such research is guiding research and program design, complementing findings from quantitative studies, and exploring issues that have received little study. Highlighted in this issue are selected research initiatives that illustrate how this qualitative approach is expanding our insight into numerous reproductive health areas. Qualitative research is, for example, examining barriers to both the use of existing contraceptives and the potential use of new contraceptive products. It also identifies factors that impede the provision or use of services designed to prevent, diagnose, and manage sexually transmitted infections; seeks ways to better identify and serve victims of domestic violence; and helps us explore why maternal mortality rates remain unacceptably high in so many settings.

Read the full text of Network 22-2 on FHI's Web site:

English: http://www.fhi.org/en/fp/fppubs/network/ntgroupng.html

French: http://www.fhi.org/fr/networkf/ntgrpngf.html

Spanish: http://www.fhi.org/sp/networks/ntgrpngs.html

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More than 2,000 full-text materials in English, Spanish and French are available on FHI’s Website: http://www.fhi.org

FHI seeks to improve lives worldwide through research, education and services in family health.