Software for Academics & Public Health on the Web
Students Please Note: This software can be down loaded and used on your personal computers. Installation on SPHTM lab PCs is however, -NOT AUTHORIZED-. Such installation is possible under SPHTM faculty requests made to the computing support group. Please be sure to read the SPHTM PC lab guidelines and/or TCS policy on computing. You can use the lab PCs to down load any of the software below and then transfer the files to your floppy disks. To do so, simply use the "C:\Student" directory for the down load location. Please remove the files after you have copied them to your disks. If you require any assistance please seek out the lab assistant in the Tidewater SPHTM Lab 585-7173 9am-1pm Weekdays.
| EPIINFO ver. 6.04b - Epi Info is a complete system for word processing, data entry, database management, analysis and public health statistics. Facilities are provided for importing and exporting a variety of file types. It is easy to use for epidemiologic investigations. Epi Info is produced by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO). Version 6.04b |
| DO EPI - DoEpi is a series of educational studies and computer exercises designed to teach both epidemiology and the use of Epi Info. Included is an instructor's module with which one can create an interactive, hypertext teaching module. Do Epi is a tool for using and creating Computer-assisted Instruction (CAI). |
| EPIMAP -a program that enables you to make or import maps, and then to display rates and other public health data within the several geographic areas. Can import outputs from EPIINFO. |
| SSS1-Statistical Surveillance System -a program for tracking morbidity, mortality, and other indicators over time. Can import from and export to both EPIINFO and EPIMAP. |
| EPIMETA ver. 1 beta, performs meta-analysis, a quantitative method for combining the results of many studies relating to a single subject. Meta-analysis can sometimes show clear trends which may have been obscured by the variety of practices and results in disparate studies. It uses analysis techniques derived from the published works of statisticians to combine the results of many studies in a statistically meaningful and replicable way. The program runs in DOS to minimize the resources needed, but features a Windows-like interface which makes data entry, file manipulation, and subgroup analysis easy. EPIMETA software V1.1 is a beta testing version for trial use. |
| CLUSTER version 3.1 - This software is designed to help the researcher determine if there is a statistically significant chance that a disease cluster occurred other than by random phenomenon. Since the evaluation of disease clusters is a complex task, it is also important that the user have familiarity with cluster investigation and analysis before attempting to use this software. The software includes 12 statistical methods that analyze the significance of a cluster using techniques that evaluate, time, space, and both time and space clustering. The software is programmed with three major categories, six subcategories, and twelve analysis procedures. |
| CONQUEST - COmputerized Needs-Oriented Quality Measurement Evaluation SysTem is a prototype system for collecting and evaluating clinical performance measures. It includes two interlocking databases—a Measure Database and a Condition Database—with a user-friendly interface to help you find measures to fit your needs. It summarizes information on approximately 1,200 clinical performance measures developed by public- and private-sector organizations, and summarizes recommendations from Agency for Health Care Policy and Research-supported clinical practice guidelines and findings from AHCPR's Patient Outcomes Research Team (PORT) projects. |
| MEDQUEST Clinical Data Collection Design Tool... MedQuest, sponsored by the DHHS Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), provides tools for design of your own data entry systems without programming intervention. Variables and data entry rules can be created and revised quickly. Design and Data Entry functions allow the designer to concurrently develop the design concept and test it through the data entry function. The data collection system that you design with MedQuest can be used to collect a custom set of clinical data for statistical analysis purposes such as determining quality of care or utilization of care. Actual data can be entered as soon as the design function is completed. Data collected are stored in a Microsoft Access database and can be exported through MedQuest to a format that can be read by statistical analysis tools such as SAS and Stata. |
| EASEVAL - Easy Analysis for EVALuation is a program that permits easy viewing, investigation and further analysis of the data sets of the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). It facilitates, for example, user-friendly calculation of frequencies, cross-tabulations, and indicators. EASEVAL was developed by the Futures Group International, with partial USAID support. |
| DemProj - The Demographic Projection Model, created by The Futures Group, is a full-featured population projection program. It is designed to permit easy manipulation and analysis of demographic data by any user with a basic understanding of demographic principles and the ability to operate a microcomputer. DemProj has been used by a large number of planners and researchers around the world. Its strongest feature is that it is easy to use. It is intended mainly for the planner or researcher who is not necessarily a demographer. |
| Target-Cost - The Target-Cost program facilitates calculations to ensure that adopted demographic targets--mostly concerning fertility, population growth rate and size--are feasible. It also determines requirements in supplies and funding for achieving stated targets. Based upon the Target-Setting Model developed by The Population Council and The Futures Group (Bongaarts and Stover, 1986), it shows the family planning requirements needed to meet specific fertility goals. It can be used to determine the number of family planning users, new acceptors and commodities required, by method and source, to achieve a total fertility rate (TFR) target, based on estimates of changes in the other proximate determinants of fertility. It also calculates projected costs to meet TFR targets. The Target-Cost Model has been produced by The Futures Group under the OPTIONS project of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). |
| Population
Council DATABANK, Version 3.11 - The Population Council Databank System is a
completely integrated and easy to use system for storing, displaying, and analyzing large
amounts of demographic data. Typical Databank System data files might be countries of the
world, states or provinces of a country, cities of a state or province, districts of a
city, or even households within a village. Users may compute and recode variables.
Descriptive procedures include printing, sorting, grouping, and crosstabs. Statistical
procedures include correlation, regression, and multiple regression. Graphical routines
include plots, cumulative plots, timelines, scattergrams, and maps. |
DISCLAIMER: SPHTM is not legally or otherwise responsible for any problems you might experience in the installation and/or configuration of any of the software listed above on your personal computers. Please be sure read the instructions and readme files, manuals and guides associated with each product before you proceed.