Finding common ground: how the development of theory in public health research can bring us together

• Published in: Social theory & health Vol. 19; no. 2; pp. 127 - 136
• Main Authors: Gauffin, Karl, Dunlavy, Andrea
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Palgrave Macmillan UK 01.06.2021; Palgrave Macmillan
• Subjects: Academic disciplines; Colleges & universities; Education; folkhälsovetenskap; Graduate students; Health research; Interdisciplinary aspects; Medical research; Medical Sociology; Original Article; Paradigm; Public health; Public Health Sciences; R&D; Research & development; Research subjects; Researcher subject relations; Role theory; Social Sciences; Social Theory; Sociology; Teaching; Theory; Transdisciplinary; Paradigm; Research; Transdisciplinary; Theory; Education; Public health

Within the past few decades, the academic discipline of public health has taken root in universities around the world. As a young and multidisciplinary field with a dual-research/practice focus and a tradition that emphasises method development, the use of theory in public health research has often...