Background: To combine health information and environmental health determinants is key, for epidemiological monitoring and health risk studies but its integration represents a challenge that requires specific expertise. An example of a potentially useful source of significant environmental data rel...

Background: Our aim was to test the usefulness of a new tool to monitor NCD. We evaluated a composite indicator, the ratio of hospitalizations vs mortality rates (HMR), by assessing its capacity of identifying additional variability among regions. In this communication, we present the analysis corr...

El día 1 de octubre de 2010, el CIBER de Epidemiología y Salud Pública realizó en Barcelona, un taller sobre la pandemia de gripe gripe (H1N1) 2009 para revisar los resultados preliminares de los proyectos de investigación y los estudios de vigilancia epidemiológica.