Project 3

Introduction:

Our group has chosen Healthcare inequality and Sex trafficking as our topics of research for our English 1102 class; and we chose these as our topics because both of us feel personal connections to them. I have aspired to be a geneticist and to major in bioengineering, while McKenzie has been helping spread word and raise awareness of sex crimes and sex trafficking within our country. However, in order to tie these two topics together to fit under an umbrella topic, we had to plan on also researching how healthcare inequality has affected the rates of sex crimes, including sex trafficking, and vice versa; which is what we studied in our survey, issued through Qualtrics."

Methods

We issued our survey in hopes to gain and even mix of both qualitative and quantitative data via our research questions. These questions were given out to the community around us, and hopefully with our results, we can use our data to bring issues to light an raise awareness, and gain prior uncollected to knowledge to better our community's future.

When we made our questions, we wanted to make sure that we only had participants 18 or older, and we wanted to make sure that our questions could be broad enough, yet simple enough, to cover a large spectrum of possible answers, while still allowing us to measure the results efficiently

Results

Do you have a family member who is in need of medical attention most or all the time?

How much do you think healthcare inequality has affected you?

When asking participants their personal thoughts, experiences, and opinions about healthcare, we received varying responses. Subjects who were asked if they had a family member in need of medical attention most or all of the time responded with a 50/50 yes and no (Top left). On the right, people who were asked how much they thought healthcare inequality had affected them varied in their responses as well. While the answers "A moderate amount" and "A little" were more popular both at 30%, the other options also appealed to our audience.

Based on your experience with healthcare today, what do you think the healthcare environment will look like in 50 years? Will conditions improve/get worse? Will everyone have healthcare?

According our survey, 60% of participants believe healthcare conditions will not improve, and everyone will have healthcare and conditions will not improve and not everyone will have healthcare.

How do you think healthcare professionals can help victims out of the system?

When participants were asked how health care professionals can help victims of trafficking, 60% of individuals believed that taking time to understand the emotional ties and trying to sever them in any way.

How do you think specialists can help recover young men and women from the trauma they experienced in the trafficking system?

90% of individuals asked this question chose all of the above because of the benefits of therapy, counseling, and rehabilitation for victims of trafficking.

Discussion:

According to our survey, the results ultimately show that if we generalize the survey to the overall population, people do not have hope that healthcare conditions will improve and there is room for therapy and health care engagement with human trafficking victims. When participants were asked, "Do you think that places like schools, hospitals, libraries, etc. should share ways of prevention and awareness with children?" 90% of individuals said yes while the other 10% said no. There is a risk with spreading this information to children and teens, but there is also a reward. If children can be aware and cautious of predators and groomers, they will be more likely to stay away from those people.

Conclusion

To conclude, I feel like we were able to gather very important information of our community with our survey that we would not be able to get anywhere else. The only thing that would have changed would be our time management and the amount of people we studied. With only two people on our team with busy schedules to deal with, it was hard giving out surveys, which therefore made our results a little limited. However, the information provided should be enough to raise the awareness we hope to spread.

Works Cited

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Rader Sipe, Stephanie, et al. “Taking off the Blinders: A Comparative Study of University Students’ Changing Perceptions of Gender Discrimination in the Workplace From 2006 to 2013.” Academy of Management Learning & Education, vol. 15, no. 2, June 2016, pp. 232–249. EBSCOhost, doi:10.5465/amle.2014.0139. Accessed 16 Nov 2020

Tolbert, P. S., & Castilla, E. J. (2017). Introduction to a special issue on inequality in the workplace (“What works?) [Electronic version]. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 70(1), 3-15. doi: 10.1177/ 0019793916675336 Accessed 28 Nov 2020

Works Cited Cont.

Ansell, David. “The Death Gap.” How Inequality Kills, 21 April 2017, pp 1-29. University of Chicago Press. https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Death_Gap/pZUtDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 . Accessed 8 September 2020.

Bartley, Mel. "Health Inequality: An Introduction to Concepts, Theories and Methods." Health Inequality, 9 Jan. 2004, pp. 3-208. Wiley, https://www.google.com/books/edition/Health_Inequality/mFdz0jHxxqkC?hl=en. Accessed 25 August 2020.

World Health Organization. “Handbook on Health Inequality Monitoring.” With a Special focus on Low - and Middle- Income Countries, 2013, pp 1-105. World Health Organization, https://www.google.com/books/edition/Handbook_on_Health_Inequality_Monitoring/GLIXDAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0. Accessed 8 September 2020.

World Health Organization. “The Economics of Social Determinants of Health and Health Inequalities.” A Resource Book, 2013, pp 1-124. World Health Organization, https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Economics_of_Social_Determinants_of/1LMXDAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0. Accessed 8 September 2020.

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