Question

Option #1: Critical Thinking Paper on Issue or Problem

Select an issue or problem that you wish to investigate critically. Formulate a question or thesis on the issue so that your research has a clear and cogent direction.

Use Paul and Elder’s (2012) intellectual standards to find a topic or problem that is clear, relevant, significant, and precise.

Now, write a paper that addresses the problem or issue via scholarly sources.
Your paper should include the following:

Title page: include your name, date, title of essay, and class

Introduction: provide a two-paragraph introduction that frames the issue or problem carefully

Engagement with issue or problem using scholarly sources and the intellectual standards proposed by Paul and Elder (2012): What is the issue? Why is it significant? Why is this issue relevant to you (and/or your community)? What have you learned about the depth and breadth of the issue or problem from scholarly sources? How do the scholarly sources aid you in fair-mindedness and logic?

Conclusion: Reflect on your issue or problem and how the sources informed your thinking. What have you learned? How can you apply the intellectual standards and elements of reason to this issue or problem to come to creative solutions? What critical questions remain?

References

Journal Submission. Each module lecture contains a section with journal prompts that focus on reflection and application of the module content. Use the Journal Template to record your answers for each module’s prompt(s). Include these entries at the end of your Final Portfolio.

Details

Cite all claims and ideas using scholarly sources. While it is acceptable to write in the first person, be sure to cite your sources to support your inferences.

Your paper should engage a minimum of six scholarly sources that are not required or recommended readings for this course. The CSU-Global Library is a good place to find these sources.

Your paper should be eight to ten pages in length and formatted according to the CSU-Global Guide to Writing & APA.

Papers should be double-spaced, 12-point font.

Answer 1

Note: This response is in UK English, please paste the response to MS Word and you should be able to spot discrepancies easily. You may elaborate the answer based on personal views or your classwork if necessary. Also, you will have to find links online for countries with the highest rank in medical research.

(Answer) Introduction: Research, supply, demand and the market of the medical industry functions similar to any other market. The laws of economics could easily be applied in order to study demand and supply, costs, resources and equilibrium. If one might take a closer look, in the medical industry, “demands” could be equated with “disease.” In other words, if there is more disease, there is more demand for medical supplies and medical progress. If people did not particularly get sick, there would be no reason for making supplies and investing in research that would lead to new and innovative supplies.

People generally assume that a large population means more contamination and more contamination means more diseases. However, this is simply the creation of a demand. In economics, there is no need for a supply if there is no demand in the first place. This would probably mean that a larger population beckons the need for more supply, more medical research and more biotechnological progress in the medical field.

Engagement with the issue: There are two sides to this study, one is affirmative and one is negative. Both aspects can be proved through research of historical progress in the medical field. The affirmative part of the research is of the hypothesis that, a copious population leads to an increase in the demand and supply chain of medical progress and facilities. For instance, if a place has a low population, then there is a lower investment in the field of medical research. Places with lower populations would generally have medical technology that has been researched in countries of higher population. In other words, the lower population does not particularly demand too much in the field of research. Places with higher populations are prone to pandemic diseases and hence have a lot more invested in the field of medical research, development of vaccinations, biotechnology etc.

The negative hypothesis of this study would entail that a place with a higher population is prone to more diseases. More people lead to more contamination and inadequate resources. This is simply how population growth and health are related. For instance, places with higher population have more waste and sewage. This results in frequent water contamination and hence more outbreaks of water-borne diseases.

Research question 1 – Does a higher population lead to a higher demand in the field of research?

Research question 2 – Does a high population lead to more pandemic outbreaks?

Methodology – Secondary Research Analysis – Data from PEW Research on the history of outbreaks, countries that have made the most progress in terms of medical research and investment and the population of the nations involved. There are no ethical implications to this kind of study.

The probable issue that one might face with the correlation of data is that there might be a confounding variable. This means that another factor other than ‘population’ might be affecting the medical research and the rate of outbreaks. For instance, places with more factories have more diseases or places with a better economy have more medical progress or even that countries with more invested in medical research might actually supply to countries with higher populations.

References - http://www.pewglobal.org/2007/12/13/a-global-look-at-public-perceptions-of-health-problems-priorities-and-donors/

http://www.pewglobal.org/2015/09/16/health-care-education-are-top-priorities-in-sub-saharan-africa/

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/top-20-countries-in-clinical-medicine-based-on-citations-per-paper/401514.article