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FHC 212 Health Statistics

ND2 levelMedical & Health Sciences15 topics

FHC 212 covers 15 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Nature and role of health statistics
  2. Basic concepts in biostatistics
  3. Medical data types and sources
  4. Health and vital statistics
  5. Collection of vital and health statistics
  6. Uses of medical, vital and health data
  7. Medical data in Nigeria and related problems
  8. Data collection methods
  9. Birth and death registration
  10. Health indices
  11. Standardization of rates
  12. Statistical methods for data analysis and presentation
  13. Scales of measurement
  14. Measures of central tendency and variability
  15. Probability, estimation, correlation and regression

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Nature and role of health statistics

Health statistics is the systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of health data to describe health status, identify trends, and inform health policy and practice. Mastering its core ideas—definition, types, and its role in evidence‑based decision making—is essential for the NUC CCMAS, NBTE, and NCCE exams because they test understanding of how statistics underpin health research and public health…

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