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Health Indicators and Health Surveys - BCA803

Sources of routinely-collected health-related data; how these data are used to derive population measures of fertility, mortality and morbidity, and to measure health service utilisation, disease registration and reporting; quantitative demographic methods of age standardisation and calculation of life expectancy by life table techniques to obtain valid comparisons; the development, design and delivery of a valid and reliable health questionnaire; focus groups and other qualitative methods; standard instruments used in health surveys, coding, validity and reliability of measures, advantages and disadvantages of modes of data collection; design and implementation of an efficient sampling strategy; analysis and interpretation of the data.

Credit Points: 4
When Offered:

X1 - External study; Offered in Session 1

Staff Contact(s): Associate Professor Gillian Heller
Prerequisites:

Admission to MBiostat or PGDipBiostat or PGCertBiostat Prerequisite Information

Corequisites:

BCA802

NCCW(s):
Unit Designation(s):

Science

Assessed As: Graded
Offered By:

Department of Statistics

Faculty of Science

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