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Learn Challenge: Patient Demographics Summary | Healthcare Data Fundamentals
Python for Healthcare Professionals
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bookChallenge: Patient Demographics Summary

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In healthcare analytics, summarizing patient demographics is a routine yet essential task. You often need to generate reports that highlight the average age of patients, the distribution of genders, and other key statistics. Such summaries help healthcare professionals understand their patient population and tailor care or resource allocation accordingly. To accomplish this, you will use the pandas library, which is widely used for data manipulation and analysis in Python. You will work with a CSV file that contains anonymized patient records, each with an age, gender, and diagnosis column.

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  • Use the provided patient data (age, gender, diagnosis) to create a pandas DataFrame directly in your code.
  • Calculate and print the average age of patients.
  • Count and print the number of patients for each gender.
  • Output the results in a clear, readable format.

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