ABSTRACT
The objective of this concept paper is to describe non-traditional data sources for public health surveillance to enable early identification of health issues, track positive health, and improve responsiveness. This paper brings attention to the use of non-traditional data sources that could supplement traditional public health surveillance and render it useful at local levels, overcoming the challenges of traditional data sources which are often cost prohibitive and have significant time lags.
- Choi BCK, Decou ML, Rasali D, et al. Enhancing capacity for risk factor surveillance at the regional/local level: A follow-up review of the findings of the Canadian Think Tank Forum after 4 years. Archives of Public Health 2014; 72:2--12. DOI: 10.1186/2049-3258-72-2Google Scholar
- Raghupathi W, Raghupathi V. Big data analytics in healthcare: promise and potential. Health Inf Sci Syst. 2014 Feb 7;2:3. doi: 10.1186/2047-2501-2-3. eCollection 2014.Google Scholar
- Charles-Smith LE, Reynolds TL, Cameron MA, et al. Using Social Media for Actionable Disease Surveillance and Outbreak Management: A Systematic Literature Review. PLoSOne.2015Oct5;10(10):e0139701.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0139701. eCollection 2015.Google Scholar
- Linard C, Alegana V, Noor A, et al. A high resolution spatial population database of Somalia for disease risk mapping. Int J Health Geogr. 2010; 9: 45. Published online 2010 Sep 14. doi: 10.1186/1476-072X-9-45Google Scholar
- Kalluri S, Gilruth P, Rogers D, et al. (2007). Surveillance of arthropod vector-borne infectious disease using remote sensing techniques: A review. PLoS Pathogens 2007;3(10), e116. doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.0030116Google Scholar
- Glass G, Cheek J, Patz J, et al. Using remotely sensed data to identify areas at risk for Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome. Emerg Infect Dis 2000; 6(3), 238--247. doi:10.3201/eid0603.000303Google Scholar
- Rodgers SE, Mather TN. Evaluating satellite sensor derived indices for Lyme disease risk prediction. J Med Entomol 2006;43:337--43.Google Scholar
- Margruder SF. Evaluation of over-the-counter pharmaceutical sales as a possible early warning indicator of human disease. Johns Hopkins APL Tech Dig 2003; 24(4), 349--53.Google Scholar
- Kirian ML, Weintraub JM. Prediction of gastrointestinal disease with over-the-counter diarrheal remedy sales records in the San Francisco Bay area. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 2010;10:39.Google Scholar
- Stopka TJ, Lutnick A, Wenger LD, et al. Demographic, Risk, and Spatial Factors Associated With Over-the-Counter Syringe Purchase Among Injection Drug Users. Am J Epidemiol 2012;176(1), 14--23. doi:10.1093/aje/kwr492Google Scholar
- Research Group of the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. 2014. Wearable Computing Challenges and opportunities for privacy protection. Accessed at https://www.priv.gc.ca/information/research-recherche/2014/wc_201401_e.asp#heading-004-2Google Scholar
Index Terms
Proof of Concept Paper: Non-Traditional Data Sources for Public Health Surveillance
Recommendations
Digital Public Health Surveillance with Online Health Consultation Data: An Example of HIV Monitoring
ICMHI '22: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Medical and Health InformaticsThere is increasing interest in obtaining electronic information from sources other than official public health organizations for public health surveillance. The potential of novel digital data sources, such as internet news, search engine, social media,...
Fever detection from free-text clinical records for biosurveillance
Automatic detection of cases of febrile illness may have potential for early detection of outbreaks of infectious disease either by identification of anomalous numbers of febrile illness or in concert with other information in diagnosing specific ...
Redesigning Electronic Health Record Systems to Support Developing Countries
ICMHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 7th International Conference on Medical and Health InformaticsElectronic Health Record (EHR) has become an essential tool in the healthcare ecosystem, providing authorized clinicians with patients’ health-related information for better treatment. While most developed countries are taking advantage of EHRs to ...
Comments