Statistical methods to manage and analyse real world data. Development of a health observatory in Alt Empordà. Mètodes estadístics per gestionar i analitzar real world data. Desenvolupament d'un observatori de salut a l'Alt Empordà
The objective of this thesis is to explore in greater depth the process of creating a public health observatory and the processing of the information needed to take territorial decisions in the county of Alt Empordà. The outcome is the creation of Indika, the Health and Social Pole of the Alt Empordà. Indika is a public health agency that acts as the territory's health and well-being agent. The objective of Indika is to generate knowledge about the impact of social determinants of health in Alt Empordà. To do so, it uses a working framework based on three points: to inform, to discuss, and to act. This working framework served to produce the visual information solutions, including infographics, collections of indicators, and a web application whose purpose is to portray the existing problems in the territory to start debate with the different political and social agents to take decisions on improvement initiatives. Apart from creating a public health observatory, two parallel lines of action have also been developed in this thesis: the creation of public structures to store information based on events as a way of structuring medical information. These two lines of investigation have resulted in the creation of the "Indika Data Repository", an information repository about the county of Alt Empordà, using the collaborative platform GitHub and the implementation of the eventr package in R programming language, and currently published in the Comprehensive R Archive Network. Eventr is a package whose purpose is to facilitate the implementation of architectures based on events ; Aquesta tesi té com a objectiu aprofundir en el procés de creació d'un observatori de salut pública i el tractament de la informació necessària per a la presa de decisions territorials a la comarca de l'Alt Empordà. El resultat ha estat la creació d'Indika pol de salut i social de l'Alt Empordà. Indika és un observatori de salut pública que actua com a agent de salut i benestar del territori. L'objectiu d'Indika és generar coneixement sobre ...