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With this software and a personal computer, epidemiologists and other public health and medical professionals can rapidly develop a questionnaire or form, customize the data entry process, enter and analyze data and create epidemiologic statistics, tables, graphs, and maps. Supported by the (U.S.) Centers for Disease Control, the program can be downloaded from the site. Minimal system requirements include Windows 98, 2000, XP, Vista or 7, 32 MB Ram, 200 megahertz processor and 260 megabytes of free hard drive space.
http://www.cdc.gov/epiinfo/
This site contains a series of pdf files and presentation
slides about topics on "practical approaches" in field
epidemiology, including management of disease outbreaks. The
information is intended primarily for U.S. health
professionals, but the content is clear, generic and
applicable in any country. The site is maintained by the
North Carolina Center for Public Health Preparedness, U.S.
http://nccphp.sph.unc.edu/focus/
International Clinical Epidemiological Network (INCLEN) (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
INCLEN promotes clinical practice based on evidence of
effectiveness and efficient use of resources. It includes
information on publications, research, meetings, and links to
participating institutions.
http://www.inclen.org/
The site contains briefly annotated links to epidemiology-related sites on the Internet. It is organized by broad categories including: Government Agencies and International Organizations, Professional Societies and Education, Cancer, Cardiovascular, Diabetes, Infectious Diseases and AIDS, Genetic and Molecular, Environmental, Reproductive Health and Population Studies and General Epidemiology.
http://www.medicalcoding.org/resources/medical-resources-online-epidemiology-guide/
This PubMed search will identify all epidemiology related
free fulltext ejournal articles within the database. Within
the search results, there are links to the fulltext material.
By repeating this search periodically, you will find new
fulltext articles that are added to the PubMed database
weekly. Essential Health Links contains similar searches for
most subpages listed in the Specific Health Resources table
of contents.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=PureSearch&db=pubmed&details_term=%22loattrfree%20full%20text%22%5Bsb%5D%20AND%20%28%22epidemiology%22%5BSubheading%5D%20OR%20%22epidemiology%22%5BMeSH%20Terms%5D%20OR%20epidemiology%5BText%20Word%5D%29
Supercourse: Epidemiology, the Internet and Global Health (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
The Supercourse is a large collection of Powerpoint lectures
designed for medical and health science students around the
world. The lectures have been provided by individual
lecturers worldwide.
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/
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