Science Buddies: "Ask an Expert"

Hello there!

I was thinking and actually start collecting information
about reactions and actions toward dengue fever
around the world. I want to get to work on this
for my science project. I would like to ask
for some advise(s) on this issue.
Thank you,
7G student

Hi Anca,

Welcome to the forum! Two comments for you:

--You will probably find experts with knowledge more specific to this topic in the Life Sciences forum -- I expect that a moderator will move your post there soon.

--One good way to get an overview of the work people have done is to look at research abstracts. I searched for "dengue fever" (with quotes) at scholar.google.com, and it looks like a number of the top results examine how it's being dealt with as a public health problem, which sounds like what you're interested in. You might find "public health", "global health", etc to be useful keywords in your searches. You might also find institutes or organizations that have done work to combat dengue fever, and their websites might contain information useful to you.

Best wishes,
Amanda

Thank you for your answer, Amanda. I found lots of articles about dengue fever.
I got stuck actually on getting the information together, especially to implement
a simulation computer program/model which is supposed to use
3 factors: environment, mosquitous, and humans. This is how I was thinking
to motivate my project. Then to relate the program to the risk of getting
the disease due to travelling....I don't know if I miss something. Any suggestions
will help.
Thanks,
Anca

Have you defined the specific question you're trying to answer? Now might be a good time to check out our project guide, specifically the part about developing your question:

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... ndex.shtml

You could keep a list of interesting questions as you do your background reading, and later you can pick a few and think more about whether you have the time and resources to carry out the project necessary to answer them, and how much you would enjoy the process of doing so. That way, you can avoid getting bogged down in the details of a method you might or might not end up using.

Hope that helps -- I think the Life, Earth, and Social Sciences experts will be able to add more specific comments on your ideas so far.

Amanda