Draft A Survey

Draft a Survey

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Draft a Survey

Part 1:

Australia is a big country with a huge population of approximately 25.09 million (Clarkson, et. al., 2017) (Paris, 2017). Such a huge population also normally has a number of health and security issues, which need to be immediately handled and addressed. Although, being a developed country, Australia has taken control over many of its health problems and patients here are usually treated with great care and precision, still there are some issues that are left unaddressed (Baum, 2016) (Brownson, Colditz, & Proctor, 2018) (Kickbusch, Williams, & Lawless, 2014) (Mitchell, R. Cameron, McClure, & Williamson, 2015). Public health is a very sensitive issue that garners great importance in every region and every country (Frumkin, 2016). The issue becomes more serious when a large number of people are being affected by it.

Hence, in order to check the efficiency and effectiveness of various medical practices being carried on in the public health sector, various approaches are adopted (Germov, 2014). These approaches help the medical practitioners to either carry on with those practices, bring improvement in these current medical practices, limit them or abolish them altogether. The approaches also act as a guiding light in the designing and formation of new policies.

One of the most effective approaches and methods to collect data about the effectiveness and efficiency of any practices especially the practices being carried on in the sector of public health and safety is the survey method. Surveys provide elaborated and detailed data about the population and the methods being used in the field. In the current scenario, two groups have been selected to collect the data about the recent practices in the medical sector (Rosen, 2015). This will be a telephonic survey which will include a few questions related to their demographical information (Tiene, 2000). One of these groups uses the discussed medical facility frequently and the other one either does not know about it or hasn't used it even once, despite having knowledge about it (Yee, & Niemeier, 1996). These potential groups can be found by collecting the data from various medical facilities like clinics and hospitals. One of the biggest benefits of getting the data in this way is that the researcher can get first-hand information about the opinion of the population but there is a drawback as well (Dillman, 1978) (Fricker, & Schonlau, 2002). The data collected through this method can be biased in some cases.

Part 2:

The following survey has been designed to record demographic and general information related to public opinion, behavior, and beliefs.

Kindly select the most appropriate option among all that fits best in your case.

Gender: Male Female

Age: _________________ Years

Highest Level of Education:

Doctorate

Masters

Graduate

Undergraduate

High School

Marital Status:

Single

Married

Separated

Divorced

Widow / Widower

Living with Partner

Do you have any dependents on you?

YesNo

No. of Dependents:

1

2

3

4

5

More than 5

Do you smoke?

Yes No

Do you think there are adequate health and safety services in your community?

Strongly Agree

Agree

Neutral

Disagree

Strongly Disagree

1

2

3

4

5

How satisfied are you with the quality of health and safety practices in your community?

Very satisfied

Somewhat Satisfied

Neutral

Somewhat Dissatisfied

Highly Dissatisfied

1

2

3

4

5

What improvements would you like to see in the local health care center?

________________________________________________________________________

References

Baum, F. (2016). The new public health (No. Ed. 4). Oxford University Press.

Brownson, R. C., Colditz, G. A., & Proctor, E. K. (Eds.). (2018). Dissemination and implementation research in health: translating science to practice. Oxford University Press.

Clarkson, C., Jacobs, Z., Marwick, B., Fullagar, R., Wallis, L., Smith, M., ... & Florin, S. A. (2017). Human occupation of northern Australia by 65,000 years ago. Nature, 547(7663), 306.

Dillman, D. A. (1978). Mail and telephone surveys: The total design method (Vol. 19). New York: Wiley.

Fricker, R. D., & Schonlau, M. (2002). Advantages and disadvantages of Internet research surveys: Evidence from the literature. Field methods, 14(4), 347-367.

Frumkin, H. (2016). Urban sprawl and public health. Public health reports.

Germov, J. (2014). Second opinion: an introduction to health sociology. Oxford University Press, USA.

Kickbusch, I., Williams, C., & Lawless, A. (2014). Making the most of open windows: establishing health in all policies in South Australia. International Journal of Health Services, 44(1), 185-194.

Mitchell, R. J., Cameron, C. M., McClure, R. J., & Williamson, A. M. (2015). Data linkage capabilities in Australia: practical issues identified by a Population Health Research Network ‘Proof of Concept project’. Australian and New Zealand journal of public health, 39(4), 319-325.

Paris, C. (2017). Housing Australia. Macmillan International Higher Education.

Rosen, G. (2015). A history of public health. JHU Press.

Simon, J. L. (2019). The economics of population growth (Vol. 5403). Princeton University Press.

Tiene, D. (2000). Online discussions: A survey of advantages and disadvantages compared to face-to-face discussions. Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 9(4), 369-382.

Wright, K. B. (2005). Researching Internet-based populations: Advantages and disadvantages of online survey research, online questionnaire authoring software packages, and web survey services. Journal of computer-mediated communication, 10(3), JCMC1034.

Yee, J. L., & Niemeier, D. (1996). Advantages and disadvantages: Longitudinal vs. repeated cross-section surveys.