Epi Info™ Community Health Assessment Tutorial

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	The Epi Info™ Community Health Assessment Tutorial was produced by the collaborative efforts of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Assessment Initiative (AI), and the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH).

This tutorial introduces you to the basic concepts of Epi Info™ with a series of ten lessons plus an Intermediate Analysis lesson that covers more advanced concepts. The tutorial includes a survey adapted from one used in New York State; however, the survey data used for the analyses were created for the tutorial. Anonymous data relating to New York State were taken from different datasets referenced in Appendix I: Data Sources. The survey and datasets included with this course contain anonymous data for New York State and Albany County. The survey and datasets presented here relate to Community Health Assessments, and specifically Asthma; however, they can be used to teach the Epi Info™ program to any user, and to illustrate how the program can be used to gather, analyze, and present data.

For Beginning and Intermediate level instruction, complete the first ten lessons. It is recommended that you follow the lessons in the order presented, as each lesson builds upon knowledge gained from the previous lesson. The Intermediate Analysis Workshop introduces some advanced skills and uses data relevant to everyday epidemiologic work. Trainer materials can be requested through the Epi Info™ Helpdesk.

To complete the tutorial you will need the latest version of Epi Info™, a copy of the tutorial, and the sample datasets. Once installed, Epi Info™ creates a folder on the C: drive called Epi_Info. Within the Epi_Info folder, create a new folder called EIHA Tutorial. Your tutorial datasets need to be downloaded to this folder.

For information and instructions on how to download or unzip a file, click here.

You need one copy of the tutorial guide. The following formats are available.

Entire Word version of the tutorial (Section 508 compliant)
Download the Word version of the tutorial (EIHAT2.0.doc)
Includes all lessons and Intermediate Analysis

Entire PDF version of the tutorial (You need the Adobe Acrobat Reader)
Download the PDF version of the tutorial (EIHAT2.0.pdf)
Includes all lessons and Intermediate Analysis

Tutorial document broken into lessons (PDF versions)
Introductory Materials.pdf
Cover, Acknowledgements, and File Set-up information

Lesson 1 Make View.pdf
Introduction to the Make View module and creating a survey

Lesson 2 Check Code.pdf
Introduction to the Program Editor and creating Check Code

Lesson 3 Enter Data.pdf
Introduction to the Enter module and entering data into a survey

Lesson 4 Analysis Basics.pdf
Introduction to the Analysis module and basic commands

Lesson 5 Analysis Creating Statistics.pdf
Introduction to the MERGE command and basic statistics

Lesson 6 Analysis Epi Graph.pdf
Epi Graph and types of graphs available using Analysis

Lesson 7 Analysis Exporting Data.pdf
Covers ways that data can be exported from Analysis

Lesson 8 Analysis Data Management for Maps.pdf
Covers aggregating data for use in maps

Lesson 9 Epi Map.pdf
Creating and editing maps

Lesson 10 Epi Report.pdf
Ways to generate report data

Intermediate Analysis.pdf
Uses advanced concepts and different types of data

Entire tutorial in HTML
EIHAT2.0.HTM (Online version- Your browser must support frames)
Includes all lessons and Intermediate Analysis

You need all the project data located in the zip file.

Tutorial data
EIHAT Project Files.zip
Contains all the data tables and project files needed to complete the tutorial

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