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I don't know which question/ how to gather the data for my EPQ

I want to do something on medicine around the world for my EPQ.
These are some of the questions I thought of:

How do medical practices differ in different parts of the world?
What factors affect the differences in global healthcare?
How has individual countries history affected medical development in each area?
How has the ability to share research changed global healthcare?
How do patients medical experiences differ depending on where they live?

The only problem with all of these is that acquiring primary data will be very difficult. If you have any ideas of how I could please let me know.
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Original post by indiaf0035
I want to do something on medicine around the world.
These are some of the questions I thought of:

How do medical practices differ in different parts of the world?
What factors affect the differences in global healthcare?
How has individual countries history affected medical development in each area?
How has the ability to share research changed global healthcare?
How do patients medical experiences differ depending on where they live?

The only problem with all of these is that acquiring primary data will be very difficult. If you have any ideas of how I could please let me know.


i do epq on medicine, did survery on survey monkey
Original post by indiaf0035
I want to do something on medicine around the world for my EPQ.
These are some of the questions I thought of:

How do medical practices differ in different parts of the world?
What factors affect the differences in global healthcare?
How has individual countries history affected medical development in each area?
How has the ability to share research changed global healthcare?
How do patients medical experiences differ depending on where they live?

The only problem with all of these is that acquiring primary data will be very difficult. If you have any ideas of how I could please let me know.


Hey I did an EPQ for medicine and what I did a lot for primary research was interview doctors during my shadowing.
Reply 3
Its an EPQ - not a PhD.
You do not have time or space to do something as 'wide' as the topics you have suggested - it would take literally years of research. You need to have a topic / question that is much, much smaller / narrower and one that does not rely on you reading every academic paper ever written on global health outcomes.

Suggestion - listen to some of these BBC podcasts from 'Inside Health' - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b019dl1b/episodes/player -pick one topic, and do some reading specifically on that topic.
Then write 5,000 words about what you have found out. That's an EPQ,

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