Posts Tagged public health
Survival Analysis for Public Health
on July 25, 2011 by Georgina Moulton in Statistical Methods, Comments (0)
Author: Dr. Richard Emsley, Post Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Manchester Survival analysis encompasses a variety of methods for analysing the timing of events. The variable (we are interested […]
Introduction to Surveillance
on by Georgina Moulton and pjarvis in Public Health, Comments (0)
Authors: Dr. Paul Jarvis, University of Manchester and Dr. Alex Keenan, Health Protection Agency The World Health Organisation defines public health surveillance as “the continuous, systematic collection, analysis and […]
Basic Statistics for Epidemiology: Risk
on July 22, 2011 by Georgina Moulton in Statistical Methods, Comments (0)
Author: Sara Muller, University of Keele (based on Health Knowledge materials) Risk has a very similar meaning in epidemiology as it does in everyday usage – it is about […]
Visual Presentation of Public Health Data
on by Georgina Moulton in Transferable skills, Comments (0)
Author: Shelley O’Neill (NW SHA) and Georgina Moulton (University of Manchester) (based on materials from Health Knowledge) Presentation of results in Public Health is arguably the most important skill […]
Basic Statistics for Epidemiology: Prevalence vs Incidence
on by Georgina Moulton in Public Health, Statistical Methods, Comments (0)
Author Sara Muller, University of Keele (based on material from Health Knowledge) Epidemiology vs Clinical Medicine There are lots of definitions of epidemiology, but the one below is fairly […]