Lessons

This space offers lessons and educational content in research and epidemiology, aimed at strengthening the understanding of key concepts, methods, and tools for the study and analysis of health issues

Research methodology

Scientific Research I
What is a variable?
Types of variables: qualitative and quantitative

Tools

Instituto Nacional de Salud (INS), Colombia

  • Home INS: Website that provides access to the information collected by the SIVIGILA system
  • Event report and dashboards: Website that provides access to Power BI dashboards on public health events of interest in Colombia
  • Notification forms and protocols: Website that provides access to notification forms and protocols for public health events under surveillance in Colombia through the SIVIGILA system

Statistical analysis

  • OpenEpi Menu : OpenEpi produces statistics for case counts and measures in descriptive and analytical studies, stratified analysis with exact confidence limits, analysis of paired data and person-time data, sample size and power calculations, random numbers, sensitivity, specificity, and other evaluation statistics, R × C tables, chi-square tests for dose–response, and links to other sites of interest.

Visualization

  • Healthmap: It is an online platform that uses artificial intelligence to monitor and visualize the real-time spread of diseases worldwide.