MEDC2325-Research Methods 1

Week 1- Crude, unadjusted, specific rates

• Video: Specific Mortality Rates. Rahul Patwari. Published on Jul 29, 2013.

Week 2- Age-adjusted mortality rates

• Video: Direct age adjustment. Published on July 30, 2013.
• Video: Indirect age adjustment. Published on July 30, 2013.

Week 3- Population indicators

• Video: Population pyramids: Powerful predictors of the future - Kim Preshoff. Published on May 5, 2014.  
• 10 Countries with the highest life expectancy. Published on Dec 1, 2012.
• Department of Health -Abu Dhabi. Department of Health Releases 2016 Health Statistics  
• http://bayanat.ae/en/Categories/Health

Week 4 – Organizing continuous data

• Video: Frequencies and descriptive options. Published on May 20, 2013.  Using SPSS to generate measures of central tendency and dispersion and to create graphs.

Weeks 5 and 6- Normal distribution

• Video: Normal Distribution: explained simply, parts I and II. Published on Oct 10, 2011.
• Video: Testing distributions for normality using SPSS. Date Published not indicated.

Week 7 - Estimation and confidence interval

• Video: Estimation and confidence intervals. Published on 21 August 2013.  
• Understanding a confidence interval. Published on 26 March 2013.

Week 10 – Descriptive studies

• Video- Cross-sectional studies. Published on Aug 24, 2013
• Epidemic curves:

Weeks 11 and 12 – Hypothesis testing

• Video: Hypothesis test, p-value. Published on December 5, 2011.

Week 13: Case-Control Study

• Introduction to case-control studies. Published on Dec 17, 2012.
• Cohort and case-control studies. Published on Nov 17, 2013.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQI2NjzPU68
• Salmonella outbreak. Published on Jul  2, 2008.

Week 14: Cohort Study

• Cohort studies Published on Dec 17, 2012.  
• Nurses’ Health Study-1. Published on Nov 29, 2011 .
• Nurses’ Health Study-2. Publish