Global health research to promote social justice: a critical perspective.
Researchers who use a critical perspective analyze the historical, political, economic, social, cultural, and gender factors that impact on the people being studied. Research is regarded as a way to promote social justice. The purpose of this article is to describe why and how a critical perspective was used in designing and implementing research with Aymara women healers in the high plains of Peru. The study is used to demonstrate the usefulness of a critical perspective in global health nursing research to promote social justice.
Bathum
Mary Elizabeth
ME
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Clinical Science Center, Madison, WI 53792, USA. mebathum@wisc.edu
D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D005260:Female; D019513:Feminism; D014943:Global Health; D006801:Humans; D007199:Indians, South American; D008519:Medicine, Traditional; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000379:methods*; D010568:Peru; D011203:Poverty; D012107:Research Design; D012423:Rural Health; D012935:Social Justice; D016746:Transcultural Nursing