Teaching health statistics: Lesson and seminar outlines

Cover......Page 1
Front Matter......Page 2
Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 9
Introduction......Page 11
PART I Statistical principles and methods......Page 15
1. Introduction to the role of statistics inhealth sciences and health care delivery......Page 17
2. Health data: sources, levels and quality of measurement......Page 25
3. Health information systems......Page 37
4. Organization and presentation of data......Page 44
5. Measures of central tendency and location......Page 57
6. Measures of variability......Page 65
7. Introduction to probability and probability distributions......Page 72
8. Sampling and estimating population values......Page 80
9. Tests of statistical significance......Page 93
10. Association, correlation and regression......Page 105
PART II Health statistics, includingdemography and vital statistics......Page 117
11. Censuses and vital registration......Page 119
12. Measurement of morbidity......Page 128
13. Measurement of mortality......Page 136
14. Measurement of fertility......Page 147
15. Population dynamics......Page 152
16. Indicators of levels of health......Page 159
PART III Statistics in medicine,including medical records......Page 169
17. Medical records and health facility statistics......Page 171
18. International Classification of Diseases (lCD) and certification of causes of death......Page 183
19. Design of health investigations: health surveys and clinical trials......Page 192
20. Use of computers in health sciences......Page 205
21. Rapid methods for interim assessment......Page 212
22. Statistical and medical ethics......Page 217
23. Critique of a scientific paper......Page 225
ANNEX A Supplementary data sets......Page 229
ANNEX B Statistical tables......Page 234
ANNEX C Random numbers......Page 237
Index......Page 239