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Health Indicators and Health Surveys - BCA803
This unit covers: 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; and analysis and interpretation of the data.
| Credit Points: | 4 |
| When Offered: | S1 External - Session 1, External (On-campus dates: None) |
| Staff Contact(s): | Associate Professor Gillian Heller |
| Prerequisites: |
Admission to MBioStat or PGDipBioStat or PGCertBioStat |
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| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: | Department of Statistics Faculty of Science |
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