Pneumonia
What I already know
What I need to find out
Pneumonia is a lung infection.
It is contagious and can be deadly.
Babies, elderly, and people suffering from other diseases are more susceptible to this disease.
What causes pneumonia?
To what extent does it affect the economy, and how is this reflected through the number of cases and GDP?
Where and when did it originate from?
How is pneumonia diagnosed?
Can pneumonia be healed? If so, how? What treatments/cures are there?
What are symptoms of pneumonia?
What are the survival and mortality rates of pneumonia?
What are some statistics related to pneumonia?
Some cases are more severe than others.
Research Question
How does the treatment of pneumonia show the development of medicine, hygiene awareness, and technology in Britain since the Industrial Revolution?
Sub Questions
Treatment, medicine and technology
Data and statistics
Hygiene awareness
Factual Information
How has the treatment of pneumonia developed over time? Can this be shown through mortality rates?
Why have cases and outbreaks of pneumonia decreased over time, and how does this relate to hygiene awareness?
Has technology contributed to the decreasing cases of pneumonia? If so, how?
What are some recent data and statistics related to pneumonia, and how do they compare to data and statistics during the Industrial Revolution?
Were there sudden spikes in cases of pneumonia? If so, what caused this?
It has been present for a long period of time.
What is pneumonia, what causes it, and where and when did it originate from?
What are some recent data and statistics related to pneumonia, and how did this change over time?
How has the treatment of pneumonia developed over time, and Has technology contributed to the decreasing cases of pneumonia? If so, how?
Why have cases and outbreaks of pneumonia decreased over time, and how does this relate to hygiene awareness?
To what extent did pneumonia affect the economy, and how is this reflected through the number of cases and GDP?
Where there sudden spikes in cases of pneumonia? If so, what caused this?
What are the survival and mortality rates of pneumonia?
Can pneumonia be healed? If so, how? What treatments/cures are there?
How is pneumonia diagnosed? How does successful diagnosis prevent more cases?
What are symptoms of pneumonia?
What are the benefits and limitations of treatments for pneumonia, and what are the implications?
Does this relate to the living conditions? How? And how does hygiene awareness relate to the improvement of living conditions?
Explain how problems that have arised in the Industrial Revolution are still present today. How does living conditions correlate with the number of cases?
Is it true that, in developing countries: Less financial wealth -> lack of education -> lack of hygiene awareness -> inadequate living conditions -> more diseases?
How is pneumonia transmitted?
How is it diagnosed?
What were working conditions like during the Industrial Revolution? How does this compare to modern working conditions? Does this affect the cases of pneumonia?