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HEALTH STATISTICS

Category: Department of Clinical Medicine & Surgery

Faculty: Faculty of Clinical Sciences

Year of Study: 2

Semester: 1

Code: HST 213

Hours: 30

Credit: 3

Competence

This module is designed to enable the learner in apply principles of statistics in health care services.

Module Outcomes

By the end of this module the learner should:

Demonstrate understanding of the history and application of statistics in health care
Apply measures of central tendency in data analysis
Apply measures of dispersion in data analysis
Categorize data effectively
Apply various approaches in data analysis and presentation

Module Content

Introduction to statistics; Definitions, history, characteristics of the various statistics,types, application of statistics, Scales of Measurement,Nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio, scale.

Measures of Central Tendency; Calculation, interpretation, grouped data, ungrouped data, mode, median, and mean.

Measures of dispersion; range, inter-quartile range, semi inter-quartile range, Standard deviation, variance, Percentiles, Skewness.

Statistical Data; Primary and secondary, Numerical and categorical, Grouped and ungrouped, Vital statistics, Calculation of demographic rates.

Data analysis and presentation; Introduction to data analysis, interpretation and presentation.

No files for the course

Introduction to statistics

INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH STATISTICS.docx

Application of statistics in health care

Types of statistics

TYPES OF STATISTICS.docx

Sources of health Statistics

SOURCES OF HEALTH STATISTICS.docx

Measures of dispersion

Lecture-7-Measures-of-Dispersion.pdf

Vital statistics

Lecture 4 Vital Statistics.pdf

Descriptive statistics

Lecture 6 Descriptive Statistics.pdf

Data analysis and interpretation

Full Notes~ Health statistics

Health Statistics.pdf

Full Notes, Health statistics

HEALTH STATISTICS-1.pptx

Revision, health statistics

march 2021 Statistics CAT.docx