Background:

hygiene & epidemiology as a specialty plays an important role in the search of solutions for emerging health problems by means of research, as it is reflected in periodic publications in specialized journals devoted to the topic.

Objective:

to inform about the most common designs used in research for the termination of residency of hygiene & epidemiology and to what areas of the specialty they were devoted.

Methods:

a descriptive, cross-section study was carried out. 72 scientific thesis were studied at the library of the Provincial Center of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Microbiology of Camagüey since the academic year 1989-90, the period of integration of the former two specialties, including residents from Ciego de Avila and Las Tunas. In order to unify criteria, the axis of classification for the proposed researches was based on the 2nd edition translated into Spanish of the book Basic Epidemiology by Bonita R, Beaglehole R & Kjellstrӧm T (2008).

Results:

in both areas, epidemiology and environmental health, prevails the descriptive design over the rest of the models. The area with majority of research work was epidemiology in spite of the well represented that environmental health area is in the study program.

Conclusions:

there was a prevalence of the descriptive works over other investigative designs. Majority of thesis topics were related to epidemiology in spite of the well represented area of environmental health is in the residency program.

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