11. 3. 2024.
Phenomenology in Public Health
Silvije Vuletić, Josipa Kern, Aleksandar Džakula, Maja Lang Morović, Maja Miloš
Public health research in Croatia cannot be freed from the classical biomedical perspective on matters and events around us. It strictly isolates a certain segment from the entirety of the problem and subjects it to classical, standard statistical models of analysis and interpretation - definitions, literature, hypotheses, statistical methods, statistical presentation of results in terms of significance, discussion, and conclusion. Such a traditional structure is a 'conditio sine qua non' for the evaluation of the scientific nature of research. Meanwhile, the analyst must control their subjectivity and, if possible, completely exclude it.
The authors of individual chapters in this book discuss the phenomenon of reflection in public health practice and research. As a rule, reflections are free from prejudices, ideologies, and various intoxications of the thought process. We understand the text of this book as a project of sober reflection on the experience and living through experiences in public health practice and research.
The book is divided into two parts. The first part consists of the theoretical framework of the phenomenology of public health, and the second presents reflections and phenomenological observations of diverse public health issues.