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Community Eye Health Needs Assesment - OPTM7002
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Faculty: Faculty of Science
 
 
School:  School of Optometry and Vision Science
 
 
Course Outline: http://www.optom.unsw.edu.au
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Postgraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 6
 
 
Fee Band:   (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

This course aims to develop the ability to assess eye care needs of the community primarily using qualitative methods. Emphasis will be also placed on advantages of epidemiological and statistical methods to perform community eye health needs assessment. The course will include the following topics: (1) scope and use of epidemiology (2) measuring the frequency and the effect of disease (3) framing a hypothesis (4) understanding survey methods, sampling methods and data management (5) planning an eye disease screening program (6) descriptive and inferential statistics and (7) development of a survey instrument.

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