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The study of radioactivity and radiation problems and their comprehension by laical public
DVOŘÁKOVÁ, Romana
Radiation and radioactivity {--} these words awaken a sense of insecurity, unknowingness and sometimes even major concerns in many of people. On the other hand, only few people really have the right and sufficient information on this topic that is considered very important but also complicated and hard to understand. In my opinion, the majority of the public has no access to professional information on use of ionizing radiation and radioactivity. Therefore, they have insufficient knowledge of the topic and this fact results in concerns and fear of radiation that the public may hold. The hypothesis whether the amateur public is mainly afraid of medical sources of radiation, was determined for research in my bachelor thesis. Furthermore, I set several sub-hypotheses in order to gain a general picture of the points at issue and eliminate any ambiguous results. Moreover, the quantitative form of research was selected in order to reach the targets and verify the hypotheses. A questionnaire was used as a technique for collecting data. Members of the amateur public {--} patients of the hospital Mulačova nemocnice s r.o. in Pilsen {--} were selected as the statistical set for the purpose of the questionnaire survey. The objective of the thesis was to establish the concerns connected with various types of use of radioactivity and ionizing radiation, provide the objective and coherent perspective of the level of the amateur public{\crq}s awareness in this field, and propose the most effective way of presentation of information in order to spread the general awareness based on the data acquired and statistically processed. I would like to provide my bachelor thesis as a source of information to the general public. Furthermore, I would like to offer the results of this thesis to organizations dealing with these points at issue and as a course material for students of the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice.
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