This paper is from Session 5H: Statistics Education Across Disciplines: pedagogy and assessment for statistical literacy, critical thinking, and evidence-based practice
which comes under Topic 5: Statistics education in the workplace, government and across disciplines
Paper 5H1 (Friday 13th, 11:00-12:30)
Statistics education for public health nurses in the statistics seminar
Presenter
- Toshiharu Eto (Miyazaki prefectural nursing university Faculty of nursing, Japan)
Co-authors
- Hiromi Kashiwada (HIMUKA health research seminar office, Japan)
- Hiroyuki Nakao (Miyazaki prefectural nursing university Faculty of nursing, Japan)
- Keiko Aoishi (Nagoya university graduate school of Medicine, Japan)
- Noriko Matsumoto (Miyazaki prefectural nursing university Faculty of nursing, Japan)
- Yoshinori Fujii (University of Miyazaki, Japan)
- Yoshio Hidaka (Miyazaki prefectural office Division of Health & Welfare, Japan)
Abstract
It's very important how to develop community health care and health promotion activity in aged society. The statistics to grasp a local characteristic are essential to decide the health care service and healthy policy based on the evidence. We started "HIMUKA health research seminar" in April, 2015. The purposes of this seminar are education of the training of the study driving force, improvement of the ability for statistical analysis and the healthy policy establishment ability of public health nurse. A seminar participant was 545 for 2 years. The participation purposes to this seminar are analysis method using Excel, visualization of the data such as a list or a graph, making method of the questionnaire and reflection method to a healthy policy from analysis data.