(260)STAFF TRAINING IN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL SURVEILLANCE BONIS SYSTEM USE

摘要

The epidemiological surveillance Bonis system is a computer system designed in the context of adevelopment cooperation project established with Paraguay. The system is operational since last May2010 in an area of the capital Asuncion, with a positive result in the early detection of contagiousdiseases such as dengue fever, influenza and others. The success of the impact on the health of thepeople is due, among other factors, the effective training of staff of epidemiological surveillance.Training has been developed taking into account the following characteristics: a)subject to teach(computer application), b)group to qualify (heterogeneous group that includes epidemiologists,physicians, administrators, health care assistant and general population), c)availability and adequacyof educational media. Training has been conducted in different phases and in different ways. Thetraining team consists of members of the Multimedia-EHU group at the University of the BasqueCountry and local members of the Institute for Research in Health Sciences; both groups areexperienced on face to face and online courses; they have combined their expertise with the potentialof ICTs for a training plan to achieve an effective and sustainable formation.