Card no15

1) sources of health information. Characterize each of them describing their

advantages and disadvantages.
a) sources of health information
-census: registration of vital events, notification of infectious diseases, records of
hospitals and health centers
-health and morbidity survey
-national sample survey
-sample registration systems
-modal registration system
-record linkage
b) peculiarities of vital events registration
-routine, uniform medical document, register by medical professional
-vital events registration are conventionally numerical resources of marriage, birth,
sickness and deaths by which the health and growth of a community may be studied.
-vital statistics facts systemically connected and complied in numerical form related
to or derived from records of vital elements.
-they have defect in registration - quantitive and qualitative
c) peculiarities of health surveys, types of health surveys
d) peculiarities of census
-census is the complete and exhaustive enumeration of all individuals inrespective of
age, sex, caste , area etc.
-undertaken once in 10 years with specific reference, date
-methods De jure and De facto
- register every member of population
- conduct typically on certain community
e) the problems of collecting medical data for research purposes
2) inferential analysis. Standard error of the difference between two means.
Standard error of the difference between two properties
a) definition of the error. Factors that influence size of error
b) standard error of the difference between two means definition, formula.
Test used for comparison of means
c) standard error of difference between two proportion definition, formula,
significance. Test used for comparison of proportion

d) Medical-clinical example of standard error of the difference between two

means
e) Medical-clinical example of standard error of difference two proportions