The project aims to reveal the magnitude and characteristics of COVID-19 in the general population and in the most vulnerable population groups, as well as the influence of socioeconomic and environmental variables on the evolution of the pandemic.
COVID-19 epidemiology. Environmental and socioeconomic factors in the spatio-temporal evolution of the pandemic
Objectives
Assess the impact of the pandemic on the health of the population, beyond the direct effects of COVID-19, with an intersectional look at the most vulnerable population and with a gender perspective.
Measure the effectiveness of telemedicine and its contribution to maintaining the quality of care in a context of high pressure on health services.
Team
The project team is composed of researchers in disciplines such as statistics, epidemiology, public health, mathematics and data science, belonging to several institutions, the Research Group on Statistics, Econometrics and Health (GRECS) and the Research Group in Statistics and Compositional Data Analysis of the University of Girona; the Institute of Environmental Diagnosis and Water Studies (IDAEA), CSIC; the Research and Innovation Unit of the Catalan Institute of Health (ICS) of Central Catalonia; the Epidemiology and Cancer Registry Unit of Girona; the Social, Environmental and Health Observatory, Dipsalut; and the Jaume I University, Castelló.
Projects
The project is financed by both public and private institutions, regional, national and international, in all cases through competitive calls.
Results
The results of the project have been published in scientific journals, as well as in books in digital format.
Apps
This section describes some of the results derived from the project in the form of web applications, code files and other software tools.
News