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380.650.01
Demographic Methods for Measuring Health and Longevity

Course Status
Cancelled

Location
East Baltimore
Term
3rd Term
Department
Population, Family and Reproductive Health
Credit(s)
4
Academic Year
2019 - 2020
Instruction Method
TBD
Class Time(s)
Tu, Th, 1:30 - 3:20pm
Auditors Allowed
Yes, with instructor consent
Available to Undergraduate
Yes
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Contact Name
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Description
Covers demographic methods commonly used to understand how long people live and how this varies over time, across space, and between population groups. Explores the construction of life tables to calculate life expectancy, and understand its determinants. Introduces multi-state methods to calculate what proportion of their life individuals spend in good health, or affected by various illnesses and limitations. Emphasizes the practical application of these methods to the analysis of several large demographic datasets.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
  1. Calculate and interpret life expectancy and other demographic measures
  2. Construct and interpret single and multiple decrement life tables, as well as multi-state life tables, for describing demographic and health processes
  3. Implement these demographic methods across large data sets in commonly used statistical software packages (Stata, R)