The forgotten disease : TB awareness and the role of public health education in Singapore.
Fifteen Chinese aged between 21 and 29 years old were selected through snowball sampling. Through semi-structured interviews, this study found that most of them have minimal knowledge of TB and low awareness of communicable diseases in general. However, with the growing TB cases in Singapore, togeth...
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| author | Ho, Bin Bin. |
| author2 | Tan Joo Ean |
| author_facet | Tan Joo Ean Ho, Bin Bin. |
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| description | Fifteen Chinese aged between 21 and 29 years old were selected through snowball sampling. Through semi-structured interviews, this study found that most of them have minimal knowledge of TB and low awareness of communicable diseases in general. However, with the growing TB cases in Singapore, together with ageing population, international human mobility and growing ineffectiveness of anti-TB measures, this paper hopes to examine whether TB awareness in Singapore can be promoted through public health education. Public health education allows the authority to normalize and impose certain attitudes, behaviours and knowledge on TB through social institutions such as schools, family and workplaces. Upon internalizing these behaviours and attitudes, self-surveillance will be performed by individuals, which effectively manage TB awareness and TB issues. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/516692019-12-10T11:19:09Z The forgotten disease : TB awareness and the role of public health education in Singapore. Ho, Bin Bin. Tan Joo Ean School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Social sciences Fifteen Chinese aged between 21 and 29 years old were selected through snowball sampling. Through semi-structured interviews, this study found that most of them have minimal knowledge of TB and low awareness of communicable diseases in general. However, with the growing TB cases in Singapore, together with ageing population, international human mobility and growing ineffectiveness of anti-TB measures, this paper hopes to examine whether TB awareness in Singapore can be promoted through public health education. Public health education allows the authority to normalize and impose certain attitudes, behaviours and knowledge on TB through social institutions such as schools, family and workplaces. Upon internalizing these behaviours and attitudes, self-surveillance will be performed by individuals, which effectively manage TB awareness and TB issues. Bachelor of Arts 2013-04-08T04:16:04Z 2013-04-08T04:16:04Z 2013 2013 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/51669 en Nanyang Technological University 39 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Social sciences Ho, Bin Bin. The forgotten disease : TB awareness and the role of public health education in Singapore. |
| title | The forgotten disease : TB awareness and the role of public health education in Singapore. |
| title_full | The forgotten disease : TB awareness and the role of public health education in Singapore. |
| title_fullStr | The forgotten disease : TB awareness and the role of public health education in Singapore. |
| title_full_unstemmed | The forgotten disease : TB awareness and the role of public health education in Singapore. |
| title_short | The forgotten disease : TB awareness and the role of public health education in Singapore. |
| title_sort | forgotten disease tb awareness and the role of public health education in singapore |
| topic | DRNTU::Social sciences |
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