Recently we did a survey to some university students regarding our investigation theme to see what they were thinking in regards to it.
As you can see in figure 1, this question was one for the pollsters to write their own answers, as we skimmed through the results we saw that many people wrote similar things so we grouped them into the three categories presented to the chart.
Just like the first question we let the pollsters write their own answers. Most people think that it is something related to the government (25%) while 34% think that is due to education and unennployment (17% for each option) (Figure 2).
Most of our pollsters live in México, from those the majority are from either Puebla or Mexico City (Figure 3).
All our pollsters agreed to have poverty in their countries (Figure 4).
With this chart we wanted to get an idea of how conscious where they about poverty in their country (Figure 5).
Only one person thought that there is no relation between them (Figure 6).
From the people that answered yes we asked them to please expand on their answer, from what they wrote we synthesized their information since many replies had very similar reasoning, the most popular answer was something related to not having enough money to provide healthcare for themselves (Figure 7).
We wanted to know who did our pollsters thought were the most affected people. We also let our pollsters write the answer but I think we might have worded it wrong since we know poor people are the most affected, but from from those who are poor, who are the ones that are affected the most, due to our error we got 5 people replying with poor people (Figure 8).
We wanted to know how how conscious were our pollsters with the programs to help poor people in their country. We are glad to know that more that half of the pollsters know that there are programs to help those in need but still a lot of people don’t know about them (Figure 9).
Only 5% of our pollsters answered that there was no relation between poverty and health (Figure 6) from that 5% we gathered what is shown in Figure 10.
Nowadays many people say that “poor people are poor because they want to” so we wanted to know what our pollsters thought about it and let them write their own answers, from those we saw that many were similar ideas just worded a bit differently. The most popular answer was something related to the government and lack of education (Figure 11).
Due to our research question being “what is the relation between poverty and health?” we thought it might be important to know what our pollsters thought what health problem would develop the most between poor people by letting them write their own answers. The vast majority thought that it was something related to malnutrition (Figure 12).
Most people agreed on the fact that most people become sick because they are poor and become poor because of illnesses, due to all the economic factors it involves. Also, many people mentioned there are external variables that affect peoples lives, like loosing their jobs. Or that there could also be poor people with great health conditions. (fig. 13)
By asking the question “What is another factor that you think might influence health in poor people?” We could see that moat of them think that is due to not having enough food. The answers provided was a synthesis of everything our pollsters typed (Figure 14)
As our last question we were curious about what our pollsters would do to help fight this crisis, the most popular answer was support programs and donating (Figure 15). But that left us thinking because we already have support programs, and donation programs so what is really wrong?
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Healing the world team!
What is the relation between poverty and health? 