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Health Indicators and Health Surveys - BCA803
This unit covers: Routinely collected health-related data; quantitative methods in demography, including standardisation and life tables; health differentials; design and analysis of population health surveys including the roles of stratification, clustering and weighting. On completion of this unit students should be able to derive and compare population measures of mortality, illness, fertility and survival, be aware of the main sources of routinely collected health data and their advantages and disadvantages, and be able to collect primary data by a well-designed survey and analyse and interpret it appropriately.
Because of the multi-institutional nature of the BCA units, there is an early cut-off for enrolment in this unit. These dates are:
Session 1: 20 February 2015
Session 2: 24 July 2015
| 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 or GradDipBioStat or GradCertBioStat or MAppStat |
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| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: | Department of Statistics Faculty of Science and Engineering |
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