LESSON 7 part 1 Flashcards
Tools in ‘Measuring and Analyzing Community’
Epidemiology
Biostatistics
Tools in ‘Identifying Community Needs’
It is the science which deals with the study of human population size, composition, and distribution in space
Demography
Refers to the ‘number of people in a given place or area’ at a given time
Population size
It pertains to certain variables like age, sex, occupation, educational level
Population composition
An official and periodic enumeration of population
Census
2 ways of assigning people when census is taken
De Jure Method
De Facto Method
People are assigned to the place where they ‘usually live regardless of where they are at the time of census’
De Jure Method
People are assigned to the place where they are ‘physically present at the time of the census’ regardless of their usual place of residence
De Facto Method
Number of males to the number of females
Sex Ratio
Divides the population into two equal parts
Median Age
Compares the number of economically dependent with the economic productive group
Dependency Ratio
Describe the ease by which a communicable disease will be transmitted from one host to another susceptible host
Crowding index
Determine how ‘congested’ a place is
Population Density
It estimates the ‘extent or magnitude of health needs and problems in the community’
Vital Statistics
