Social Statistics in Public Health
A.Y. 2022/2023
Course offered to students on the PhD programme in
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Lead instructor: Carlo Vitantonio Battista La Vecchia
The course aims to provide the basic notions of statistical reasoning, commonly used in social analysis in health trust: 1. Construction of surveys to measure user halth needs : Investigation: phases and choice of study methodology, one-dimensional, multidimensional and latent outcome variables. Direct investigation: use and construction of a questionnaire (scale likert). Examples of direct and indirect investigations starting from the presentation of the doctoral students' projects.
2. Construction of population reports: fixed-base and moving-base index quotients with direct and indirect standardization, population balance, population pyramid
3. Shewhart control charts and confidence intervals
4. Examples of construction of linear combinations of random variables for the economic feasibility assessment of a project in public health
2. Construction of population reports: fixed-base and moving-base index quotients with direct and indirect standardization, population balance, population pyramid
3. Shewhart control charts and confidence intervals
4. Examples of construction of linear combinations of random variables for the economic feasibility assessment of a project in public health
Knowledge of basic descriptive statistics
Assessment methods
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Assessment result
superato/non superato
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