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HEP 317 Bio-statistics and Health Demography

HND1 levelMedical & Health Sciences14 topics

HEP 317 covers 14 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. Concept of biostatistics
  2. Health demography
  3. Demographic factors affecting health
  4. Role of biostatistics in health education and promotion
  5. Data collection and collation in health education
  6. Sources of biostatistical and demographic data
  7. Data presentation in biostatistics and demography
  8. Health demographic rates
  9. Health demographic ratios
  10. Population change
  11. Health status indicators
  12. Demographic rates in biostatistics
  13. Basic probability concepts
  14. Application of probability in health education promotion

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Concept of biostatistics

Biostatistics is the application of statistical methods to biological, medical, and public‑health data. Mastering its core ideas—data types, measurement scales, descriptive measures, and basic inferential concepts—enables students to design studies, analyse results, and interpret health research accurately, which is essential for the NUC CCMAS, NBTE, and NCCE exams.

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