The summer before my Senior year of high school I traveled to Tandag, Philippines with my family, where we conducted a medical mission trip focussed around visual acuity testing, cataract surgeries, and diabetes screening tests. I organized the Diabetes Screening tests where I focussed on highlighting the importance of extending medical awareness to outreach communities. I explored the creation of a risk assessment questionnaire to help detect diabetes in Filipino participants in Tandag. The aim of this work is to help indigent Filipinos in remote villages receive medical care if necessary. A risk assessment tool can act as a self-completion questionnaire for participants to identify themselves as diabetics or pre diabetics in order to seek appropriate medical attention. Therefore, Filipino participants living in remote villages will not have to travel several hours to receive diabetic blood testing unless diagnosed by the risk assessment tool. The development of the risk assessment tool takes the following assessments into consideration: blood pressure, body ass index (BMI), waist circumference, family history, and diabetic symptoms. Eventually, I conducted this study on 400 Filipino patients and found a positive correlation between total points and BMI, supporting that a risk assessment questionnaire can detect those at risk for diabetes and prediabetes.
This entrepreneurship experience started with a senior year research requirement and culminated in a useful risk assessment questionnaire that can be used by outreach communities to help aid in an earlier detection of diabetes and pre diabetes.
Entrepreneurs take risks and are very prone to taking risks. Entrepreneurship is about minimizing the risk to make the risk of the business plan as small as possible. Entrepreneurs are very dedicated about their cause and what they're doing. I hope this class will help me to broaden my ways of thinking to be more openminded about business ideas and ventures.
Entrepreneurs take risks and are very prone to taking risks. Entrepreneurship is about minimizing the risk to make the risk of the business plan as small as possible. Entrepreneurs are very dedicated about their cause and what they're doing. I hope this class will help me to broaden my ways of thinking to be more openminded about business ideas and ventures.
Hi Greg,
ReplyDeleteVery interesting entrepreneurship experience you wrote about here. Pretty cool that you were able to participate in this medical mission trip. I can see all the benefits this tool can provide individuals living in remote locations, it wouldn’t just save time and money but it could also save lives. This assessment tool sounds like a medical advancement in the making, if that’s not entrepreneurship I don’t know what is.
In regards to your post, it was very well written and your grammar and punctuation was fine. My only suggestion is maybe play around with the layout and background a little, instead of sticking with the default. After all we are going to be using this blog all semester.
Here is the link to my story!
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Wow I bet that was such a cool experience! What made you want to go through with this? I definitely think it will be beneficial to any future endeavors you might have. If you want, you can check out my post about my entrepreneurship story: http://kenny-o.blogspot.com/2016/01/my-entrepreneurship-story.html
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