HADM 602 Health Care Organization and Services . Examines the structure and functions of the American health care industry, the concepts and processes of health and illness, the institutional and individual providers of health services and related concepts. Individual research on crucial or controversial issues in the health field. Electives Electives in Biostatistics BIOS 524 Biostatistical Computing. 3 lecture hours.
Students learn how to create and manage computer data files.
Techniques for thorough examination and validation of research data are presented as the initial step of a complete, computerized analysis. Descriptive statistics are computed and statistical procedures such as t-tests, contingency tables, correlation, regression, and analysis of variance then applied to the data. Special attention is paid to the applicability of each procedure. Students are encouraged to analyze their own or typical data from their discipline. BIOS 535 Quality Health Care .