HEP 218 Health Demography

ND2 levelMedical & Health Sciences19 topics

HEP 218 covers 19 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.

Concept of demography
Health demography theories
Sources of demographic data
Population study
Census and types of census
Population census procedures
Population structure and dynamics
Population composition
Population in developing economies
Population and urbanization in Nigeria
Human settlement types
Processes of conducting population studies
Sources of community population data
Importance and challenges of population study
Health demography concepts
Birth, death and morbidity rates
Population census
Community population data collection
Types of human settlements

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One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

Concept of demography

Demography is the statistical study of human populations, focusing on size, structure, distribution, and changes over time. Mastering its core concepts—population definition, demographic variables, and the demographic transition—is vital for analysing health trends and planning health services in Nigeria.

What you get for HEP 218

Every topic above, split into sessions and dated against your exam.
Practice questions per session, with answers that explain themselves.
Offline reading — the whole course is a few hundred KB on your phone.
An AI tutor that answers questions using this course's own material.

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