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Please write a paragraph responding to the discussion bellow. Add citations and references in alphabetical order.

Qualitative research is a vastly different approach to problem solving than is quantitative research. The primary difference is in how a problem is approached. In the qualitative realm the method is primarily exploratory in nature. As in peeling the layers of an onion, the researcher gradually delves deeper into the subject until reaching a core of information that can be used to implement problem solving.

The quantitative method generates statistical data, often in overwhelming amounts that must be analyzed, processed and statistically massaged into a viable, understandable product.

Qualitative research often depends on in depth interviews with small groups of individuals where quantitative method can take vast amounts of information, sometimes from millions of people and quantify it into trends that can improve medical practices over the norm.

Both types of research are necessary to get the entire picture of a potential health care issue. Qualitative techniques identify trends in small communities facing significant challenges from isolated problems while the quantitative method delivers the “big picture” on a medical issue.

Advantages or disadvantages with either technique can vary from issue to issue. These techniques are simply tools for the medical researcher to use when gathering information as a base for research based decision making.
Both techniques are actively being used in HIV / AIDs research at the individual and societal levels and in attempts to control infectious disease transmission in impoverished third-world nations.

References:
1. http://www.uncp.edu/home/acurtis/Courses/Resources…
2. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC146662…