Disease Detective

>>Vietnamese Version
>>Full Verson

• home

• content

  • introduction
    • what is epidemiology?
    • importance
  • descriptive epidemiology
    • collecting data
    • patterns and trends
  • analytical epidemiology
    • analyzing data
    • types of studies
  • applied epidemiology
    • strategies
    • control measures

• case studies

  • lung cancer
    • rpg
    • reality
  • smallpox
    • rpg
    • reality
  • food poisoning
    • rpg
    • reality

• interactive

  • games
  • interviews
  • survey
  • site test

• about

  • making of
    • Collaboration
    • Communication
    • Design
  • website
  • members
  • coaches

• sitemap

Interactive

Survey

Purpose

One of the main goals of our website is to help raise awareness about epidemiology. However, just how many people are uneducated about epidemiology? We decided to conduct a survey and find out how many people didn't know about epidemiology.

Audience

We decided to ask a variety of age groups, but most of the surveys were given to those between 13-18 years old.

• 3 of them were 12 or under years old
• 46 were 13 to 15 years old
• 33 were 16-18 years old
• 7 were 19-21 years old
• 5 were 22 and over years old

Distribution

We decided to ask them one, important question: "Do you know what epidemiology is?", They would answer either yes or no. Our survey was conducted using an electronic form, and sent to various people, and was conducted verbally at our site test. We later combined the numbers from both sources to get our results.

Results

 

After collecting the results of the survey, represented graphically below, what we discovered was:

• 64 out of 66 people answered that they did not know what epidemiology was.
• Only 2 people knew what it was, and 4 of them was us.

After calculating the data, it turns out 97% of the population doesn’t know what epidemiology is, and only 3% know what it is. This shows that the majority of our young generation has absoulutely no idea what epidemiology is. Who then, will grow up to be epidemiologists. The need to educate the world is even apparent with the results of this survey.

Terms of Use | Credits | Acknowledgements 2006 – 2007 Disease Detective Team. All rights reserved.