This article aims to provide a reflection triggered by a ‘round table’ discussion at the VAX-TRUST project final conference regarding the interconnection between health sociology and public health. This interconnection is characterized by complexity, as it involves navigating the various ways in which sociological perspectives can inform and contribute to our understanding of health issues and the development o...
While recruitment is an essential aspect of any research project, its challenges are rarely acknowledged. We intend to address this gap by discussing the challenges to the participation of vaccine-hesitant parents defined here as a hard-to- reach, hidden and vulnerable population drawing on extensive empirical qualitative evidence from seven European countries. The difficulties in reaching vaccine-hesitant pare...
This paper focuses on the methodological conundrum of doing quick team ethnography in complex teams in a clinical setting studying childhood vaccine hesitancy. It describes how and to what extent a particular «thought style» (in Ludwik Fleck’s meaning) has developed through decisions, negotiations and disputes, producing a dialogical «local truth». It also shows how ethnographers can adapt their practice, consi...
This study sought to analyze the critical points to implement the Open Dialogue approach in psychotic crisis care. This qualitative study was based on the analysis of an open-ended questionnaire developed by mental health professionals who participated in a seminar on the subject conducted by Jaakko Seikkula in 2015, in Italy. Eighty-three selfadministered questionnaires were analyzed to detect the participants...
Objective: to describe an experience of study, reflection and practice of conducting the discursive interview. Method: experience report on the development and practice of the discursive interview technique, carried out between September and December 2019, during the discipline of Metodi Qualitativi per la ricerca sociale, at the Università degli Studi di Torino, in Italy. Three discursive interviews were appli...
Ho conosciuto il mondo accademico brasiliano – la sua vivacità e il suo calore – lo scorso settembre, quando fui ospite presso le università di Pelotas, Ribeirao Preto e Porto Alegre per un ciclo di conferenze sulla ricerca qualitativa, legato alla traduzione in portoghese di un mio lavoro (Cardano 2017). Ogni viaggio imprime nella memoria di chi lo compie un insieme composito di ricordi, su cui il tempo interv...
Studies from several countries reported that the relative mortality gap between low and high socioeconomic groups widened during the 1970s and 1980s. While this wellknown finding has important policy implications and prompted research on underlying causes, it also calls for more a detailed and accurate monitoring of past and current trends. Objectives. The aim of this paper is to present new estimates of change...