EPI 606 Assignment 1 50 marks Instructions: Provide appropriate responses to the following questions. You can answer in a separate file or type your answers directly into this. However, if you choose to type directly onto this file, use appropriate formatting to make your assignment appear neat. Save the file as a document labelled with your name, for example: AnaB_Assignment 1. Upload your completed assignment on the link provided in Moodle before the due date. 1. What is the difference between a. and a. Short Essay: In 500-700 words discuss the importance of health research in your field of health practice. You must include important definitions and describe specific aspects of practice that will benefit from research. Referencing is essential…show more content… The adage is a adage. Calculate the proportion of people who were either ‘dissatisfied’ or ‘very dissatisfied’ with services. - (number of dissatisfied) + (number of very dissatisfied) / total number = (35+ 50) / (35+50+12+3) = 85/100 = 0.85 or 85% (3 marks) d). How would you present this data using a graph? What type of graph would you use and what would be on the x and y-axes? (3 marks) - One way to display this data is as a stacked bar graph. The age categories are represented by the y-axis and the number of responders by the x-axis. The various satisfaction categories ('Very Dissatisfied,' 'Dissatisfied,' 'Satisfied,' and 'Very Satisfied') would be represented by bars in each age group. Within that age range, the height of each segment would represent the number of respondents in each satisfaction category. A graph like this would make it simple to compare satisfaction ratings amongst the various age groups.
Scenario 2: A pharmacist investigated the number of medications that people above 50 years old in his medical area are prescribed. He collected information from the prescriptions for all patients aged 50 years and over that were seen and filled at the pharmacy where he worked. Over a month, he had collected data from 50 patients. From the data he collected, he drew up the following table: No. of medications No. of patients 7 3 6 6 5 6 4 10 3 21 2 0 1
