Document analysis in health policy research: the READ approach

• Published in: Health policy and planning Vol. 35; no. 10; pp. 1424 - 1431
• Main Authors: Dalglish, Sarah L, Khalid, Hina, McMahon, Shannon A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Oxford University Press 01.12.2020; Oxford Publishing Limited (England)
• Subjects: Analysis; Bureaucracy; Case studies; Data analysis; Empirical analysis; Epistemology; Health care policy; Health Policy; Humans; Methodological Musings; Niger; Pakistan; Policy analysis; Policy Making; Policy research; Qualitative analysis; Qualitative Research; Reading; Rigour; Niger; Pakistan; research methods; Health policy; qualitative; methods; social sciences; health systems research; policy analysis; interdisciplinary; policy research; policy

Abstract Document analysis is one of the most commonly used and powerful methods in health policy research. While existing qualitative research manuals offer direction for conducting document analysis, there has been little specific discussion about how to use this method to understand and analyse h...