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Before you embark on coding the analysis to get answers, what
other questions could be asked of the datasets described?
What countries would you be interested in? What groups of countries
might be interesting to analyse?
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nicholas vakirtzidelis

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I would consider aggregating all the basic demographics of infections such as race, location,
age, income range, martial status, etc. Using the data above with some additional criteria may
help reveal a pattern to infection.
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Shehu Yakubu

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What advice will you certainly give on how to prevent spread of TB into massive
society/community in urban or rural areas? And how can someone protect themselves from
the infected individual? (edited)
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Gabriel Froymovich

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I would actually like to look within income peer groups. So, for instance, what if we looked at
the world's poorest countries, then tried to figure out what made the difference. Variables we
could look at could include gov't expenditures, humidity and temperature, continent, language
spoken, level of education, ratings from NGOs in terms of democracy or freedom, etc.
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Wendy McEwan

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Q - What is the trend over time in each country - increasing or decreasing.

Then i would be interested in knowing all of the various linkages - social determinants of
health, public health system etc.
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Feysal Mustefa

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I would like to see the relationship between international aid (monitory value) and the
improvement in TB prevalent in the subsaharan countries, especial east african.
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Raj Seepersad

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I would like to see the number of people afflicted with TB living in third world countries as well
as the poverty level faced by these people. Are there more men or women with TB? How many
children have contracted TB? What is the spread of numbers regarding TB sufferers? Is TB
on the decline or on the rise? What are the various causes of TB?
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Olukunle Adeleke

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Questions:
1. What is the relationship between World Bank income group and TB prevalence?
2. What is the trend in the death rate from 2007 to date, is it increasing or decreasing and
why?
Countries/Group of countries interested in: countries in West Africa & South America.
The countries are of interest to me because they comprise mainly of developing countries, of
which my country, Nigeria belongs. (edited)
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Chloe Hsu

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I would like to know the prevalence of TB in developed and developing countries in Europ.
What's the main reason to cause TB in these countries..?
When does TB happen and grow dramatically?
Have these countries found the cure yet..?
What's age is the main portion in these countries..? (edited)
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John Carroll

Follow 7 hours

I would like to see if there is any correlation between local and global climate (changes) and
the incidence of TB. or other disease, and weather-patterns over an extended period. I
particular to see if there are links to specific factors such as drought, floods,
increase/decrease in global and local mean temperatures etc.
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Durga Damarla

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I would like to know the TB diagnosis times against treatment times, clinical trials in each
country, also if TB is contageous or inherited ?
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Akinbola Fatoye

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I am interested in TB case in the America compared to Nigeria . More importantly what is the
trend , is it growing ?
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Angela Hull

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I would like to know the effect of the health authorities vaccinating children on the incidence
and mortality
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Amudha Harikrishnan

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I am interested in India & Norway. I am interested in countries who need more care.
I would like to ask,
The gender & age specifications of TB affected people?
Which countries has improved in reducing the number of cases every year & vice versa?
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Christopher Jordan

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I would be interested in projecting the datasets forwards to see when we are likely to
'eradicate' TB globally and perhaps even more importantly in the high disease burden
countries i.e. how realistic is the goal of eradication by 2035?
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Jonathan Rainey

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I would mainly ask about how many people in Scotland were prosecuted for fly-tipping (or
illegal dumping) over the past few years. I have asked Police Scotland under the Freedom of
Information Act for statistics on how many drivers were caught and prosecuted for littering but
each time they seem to make up excuses on how expensive it would cost them to find
information and why they should not comment. I have talked to my local MSP about this and
she told me that many public organisations often try to wriggle their way out of their obligations
if they could. She has not got back to me regarding this so far but I am hoping things do
change for the better.
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Dave Parker

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"...what other questions could be asked of the datasets described?"

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Raj Seepersad

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So typical of these government agencies who hide behind the information act and
data protection in the name of laziness. They just could not be bothered. I suppose
Police in general are more interested in attending to domestics instead of creating
harmony, they light more fire and make a bad situation worse.
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Harshit Kanchi

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I want to see if income equality and access to various public services (including health) affect
TB rates
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wilson Rainho

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I would like to understand the differences (in terms of age, gender, level of education,
purchasing power, etc) between the most affected group in developing and developed
countries.
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David Thornton

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I'd like to see if Internet access / education has an impact.

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Desmond Forson

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I would like to know the prevalence of TB in developed, developing and third world countries
and know the death rate also to know which countries have better health care for TB patients.
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Pius Ernest Ehimare

Follow 11 hours

As the saying goes health is wealth. On that note, I will like to see countries where TB is more
prevalence and the years. I should be able to measure the different level of support.
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Tendai Dube

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Compare numbers based on developed and third-world countries compare by year, any
increase or decrease
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Kathryn DeCampo

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I would be interested to see TB rates by continent and then by developed, semi-developed

and third-world countries. It would be interesting to see if countries with popular tourist
destinations are less likely to have high TB rates.
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zeinab elwakiel

Follow 12 hours

I would like to know more about economical develepment and the procedures that are used in
the process, I'd mainly focus on (egypt, singapore, japan & brasil ).
I'd also be intrested in how languages affect a person's brain & his life, and also what
privileges a person can acquire from learning certain languages.
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Belinda Walsh

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I'd be interested in the development of drug-resistant TB

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Julio Acosta

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Since there are several variables that might affect the TB rates in a wide range of countries it
would be interesting to analyze which factors in the data sets presented in the links have major
incidence in high and low levels of TB in specifics countries or areas, in order to determine
feasible policies to prevent TB
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