BIOSTATS 6015EX - Health Indicators & Health Surveys

External - Semester 1 - 2015

On completion of this course 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. The content includes: routinely collected health-related data; quantitative methods in demography, including standardisation and life tables; health differentials; and design and analysis of population health surveys including the roles of stratification, clustering and weighting.

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