PBH3010 · Health data in practice

Overview

This unit will provide you with the opportunity to develop skills in data management and analysis. Skills in data management, linkage, quality assurance and analytics will be developed throughout the program. You will be guided through data management from project inception to data set completion. Practical skills will be developed through the completion of weekly data management tasks for a hypothetical study.

Areas of study: Health science Public health

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. Develop a data management workflow
2. Appraise the processes of data linkage
3. Construct interim data reports
4. Implement strategies for monitoring data quality
5. Compile a data set handbook

Workload

6 hours per week contact hours (including 1 hour lecture, 2 hour tutorial and 3 hours online activity) plus 6 hours per week private study.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.