Estadística aplicada a las ciencias de la salud (Spanish Edition) (Original PDF)

Advanced Health Care is a collection of monographs aimed at health professionals and postgraduate, master and doctoral students, within the field of health sciences. Its objective is to expand the basic knowledge acquired during the degree, providing advanced content in each of the subjects covered. Its orientation includes the four functions that the World Health Organization grants to the health professions: healthcare, teaching, research and management. The increasing application of statistical methods in all disciplines of health sciences has led to the implantation of statistics in the curricula of numerous degrees in Health Sciences. In the community area, to establish the health status of the community, The tools provided by statistics are essential as a fundamental part of the scientific method, but a knowledge of the procedures that allows an adequate use of these resources is required. The authors of this monograph, with extensive teaching experience in undergraduate studies, official master’s degrees, postgraduate courses, and doctoral courses, have detected the need to start basic statistical concepts and techniques, which would later allow the compression and use of somewhat more techniques. complex. In this sense, intuitive ideas about procedures and interpretation of results have been emphasized. By the end of the monograph study, readers will have acquired the following skills: – Apply statistical methods as a fundamental tool in research in health sciences. – Analyze and interpret statistical data referring to population studies. – Write scientific papers in health sciences. – Develop critical reasoning and ability to define and respond to problems using the available scientific evidence.