epi4health

Research Group in Epidemiology and Public Health in the Digital Health context

Detail Research lines Projects Publications Collaboration Theses

Date of inception 01 September 2022

End date on 18 December 2025

Center: eHealth Centre: Research for Human and Planetary Health (UOC-eHealth)

The research conducted by the interinstitutional group Epi4Health (Research Group in Epidemiology and Public Health in the Digital Health context) is a recognized emerging research group (2021 SGR 01364) that focuses on: the study of health-related behaviour in especially vulnerable groups, such as adolescents and young adults, the elderly or people with social problems; analysing social inequality in the field of health and both individual and social factors determining health that influence the health-related behaviour of these groups; detecting needs in healthcare, and designing and assessing intervention; and the use of eHealth and ICT to teach people to change their behaviour in order to prevent chronic illness.