Data scientist . PhD Epidemiology . MSc Computer Science
During this week Cauane Blumenberg was contacted by Rádio Tupanci to report how was the Covid-19 lockdown situation in Toronto, Canada. This was a brief interview, which covered aspects related to how the Canadian government is handling the Covid-19 pandemic and his opinion about the lockdown.
I’have recently started a new project: a Youtube channel that will focus on the usage of several Stata commands. I’ll cover both beginner and advanced commands.
We still have only 3 videos published. One of the videos show how to use the labtrunc12 command to enable a Stata dataset to be saved using an older Stata version. The video can be found at the end of this post.
All videos will be in Portuguese, but we plan to add some subtitles in English. So, don’t forget to subscribe to the channel and stay tuned!
The first paper about the Impact Evaluation of the Criança Feliz Program was published in the SAGI’s Cadernos de Estudos (Brazilian Citizenship Ministry). The manuscript describes the randomisation process used to evaluate the Criança Feliz intervention in 30 Brazilian municipalities. We also present a comprehensive sociodemographic and behavioural description of the sample that will be followed-up for, at least, two years.
This is the largest impact evaluation study of an early infancy intervention program. The link to download the paper (free of charge) is available here.
A team from the International Center for Equity in Health (ICEH) coordinated a workshop on how to measure health inequalities in Brasília, Brazil. The workshop occurred from the 20th to the 22nd of November and was attended by the Brazilian Ministry of Health and the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) staffs.
During the course, the ICEH team covered the basics about health inequalities and introduced the software and calculations used by the ICEH in order to study health inequalities. At the end of the workshop the participants had to produce an equity profile regarding selected outcomes using VIGITEL surveys.
The ICEH team was composed by Fernando Wehrmeister, Cauane Blumenberg, Andrea Wendt and Janaína Costa. The workshop was part of the project ‘Monitoring Brazilian inequalities‘.
A study investigating the association between the length of use of mobile phones and the prevalence of neck pain was presented at the XXI Post-graduate Encounter of the Federal University of Pelotas.
The findings of the study reveal that individuals using mobile devices between three and seven hours have 36% increased prevalence of neck pain compared to those with less than one hour of use. Those using mobile devices for seven or more hours have 76% increase prevalence.
The study, led by Cauane Blumenberg, was presented by Mariana Echeverria, a PhD student of the Post-graduate Program in Epidemiology. Betina Flesch, Fernando Guimarães, Inaê Valério, Leonardo Zanini and Sarah Karam complete the list of authors.
The ‘Epidemiologia da desigualdade: quatro décadas de coortes de nascimentos’ (Epidemiology of inequalities: four decades of birth cohorts) book is now available for purchase at the ABRASCO books website.
The piece, organized by Cesar Victora, Fernando C. Barros, Mariangela Silveira and Antônio Augusto Silva, presents main results of a set of studies that contributed to design public health policies in Brazil. Twenty six researchers, including Cauane Blumenberg, wrote nine chapters covering maternal and infant health aspects.
The book was edited by the Brazilian Association of Collective Health (ABRASCO) and was written in Portuguese.
From the 2nd to the 6th of September, researchers from the Center for Epidemiological Research of the Federal University of Pelotas will be in Brasília to coordinate the training of data collection teams that will be working on the second stage of the Impact Evaluation of the Happy Child Program.
The event is organised by the Brazilian Ministry of Citizenship, and is being held at the Grande Oriente Brasil convention center. The Pelotas team is composed by Iná Santos (researcher), Tiago Santos (researcher), Raquel Barcelos (Supervisor), Caroline Bortolotto (supervisor), Marina Haertel (secretary) and Cauane Blumenberg (data scientist). They will be responsible to train supervisors and interviewers from six different Brazilian federative units: Bahia, Ceará, Goiás, Pará, Pernambuco and São Paulo.
If you want to learn more about the training, you can check out some information on the news:
Sometimes we have to save our Stata databases using an old version. This has to be done, because some people still work with the long standing Stata 12 version. However, when we use the saveold command to do so, we sometimes face a problem with the long variable labels.
For this reason I developed an ado file called labtrunc12 that truncated all variable labels to an adequate length in order to save the database using the Stata 12 version. The syntax is very simple, you just have to type labtrunc12 and all database labels will be truncated. Instructions to use the command can be obtained typing help labtrunc12 into Stata.
Download labtrunc12 from my git repository: https://github.com/cauanebs/labtrunc12
Perform the following steps to install ado files in Stata:
The coortesnaweb platform was granted with the highest funding range from the CNPq’s Universal Call. The project will receive around R$120.000,00 to continue with the data collection and the development of innovative solutions for Epidemiological research. For the following three years, the coortesnaweb will count with a mobile app to collect passive health research data using sensors and imaging resources.
Cauane Blumenberg participated of two successful approvals at the CNPq’s Universal Call:
Cauane Blumenberg will give a talk about the Steps of an epidemiological research, covering all the topics that need to be thought during the elaboration and conduction of an epidemiological survey. The talk will close the activities of the 2018 calendar of the Brazilian Group of Studies on Multimorbidity.
When: 4th of December 2018 at 5:30PM
Where: Academic Auditorium – Campus Anglo UFPel