EPM5001 Health indicators and health surveys
Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
EPM5001 Health indicators and health surveys is a level 5, 6-credit-point, postgraduate unit from the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, offered in 2025 in Semester 1 at Alfred Hospital. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2025
- Semester 1
- Alfred Hospital
- Assessment
- No exam
- 1 task
This is the 2025 handbook entry. See the 2027 entry.
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Requisites
Before EPM5001
Corequisites
Pass these before, or take them in the same semester.
After EPM5001
No unit lists EPM5001 as a prerequisite in the 2025 handbook.
Enrolment rules
Overview
Introduction to a variety of health-related data collection sources, calculation of population fertility, mortality & morbidity rates, health service utilisation measures, disease registration & reporting. Use of direct & indirect age standardisation, life expectancy calculations, valid comparisons & health differentials. Development, design & delivery of health questionnaires. Use of focus groups, standard instruments for health surveys, coding, validity, reliability of measures & models of data collection. Efficient sampling strategies, data interpretation & analysis including stratification, clustering & weighting.
Offerings in 2025
| Teaching period | Campus | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| First semester | Alfred Hospital | Online |
Assessment
- Written assignmentsWritten100%
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Derive and compare population measures of mortality, illness, fertility and survival, using basic demographic tools such as life tables and age standardisation.
- 2
Access the main sources of routinely collected health data and choose the appropriate one, taking into account their advantages and disadvantages.
- 3
Design a valid and reliable health survey to collect primary data, design an efficient sampling strategy to obtain random sample of the target population, and choose the most appropriate mode of delivery.
- 4
Analyse, interpret and present the results of survey data, taking the sampling strategy into account.
Workload and teaching
- Teaching approachOnline learning
For full details of the teaching approach to this unit, please refer to Moodle.
Learning resources
Required resources
See Moodle for details about required resources.
Contacts
- Unit Coordinators
- Dr Kevin McGeechan
- Chief Examiners
- Professor Andrew Forbes
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for EPM5001?
None, but you must take MPH5040 before or alongside it.
When is EPM5001 offered?
In 2025, EPM5001 runs in Semester 1 at Alfred Hospital, with an online option.
Does EPM5001 have an exam?
No. EPM5001 has 1 assessment task and no exam.