Digital Epidemiology: Use of Digital Data Collected for Non-epidemiological Purposes in Epidemiological Studies / 대한의료정보학회지
Healthcare Informatics Research
;
: 253-262, 2018.
Artigo
em Inglês
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-717665
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVES:
We reviewed digital epidemiological studies to characterize how researchers are using digital data by topic domain, study purpose, data source, and analytic method.METHODS:
We reviewed research articles published within the last decade that used digital data to answer epidemiological research questions. Data were abstracted from these articles using a data collection tool that we developed. Finally, we summarized the characteristics of the digital epidemiological studies.RESULTS:
We identified six main topic domains infectious diseases (58.7%), non-communicable diseases (29.4%), mental health and substance use (8.3%), general population behavior (4.6%), environmental, dietary, and lifestyle (4.6%), and vital status (0.9%). We identified four categories for the studypurpose:
description (22.9%), exploration (34.9%), explanation (27.5%), and prediction and control (14.7%). We identified eight categories for the data sources web search query (52.3%), social media posts (31.2%), web portal posts (11.9%), webpage access logs (7.3%), images (7.3%), mobile phone network data (1.8%), global positioning system data (1.8%), and others (2.8%). Of these, 50.5% used correlation analyses, 41.3% regression analyses, 25.6% machine learning, and 19.3% descriptive analyses.CONCLUSIONS:
Digital data collected for non-epidemiological purposes are being used to study health phenomena in a variety of topic domains. Digital epidemiology requires access to large datasets and advanced analytics. Ensuring open access is clearly at odds with the desire to have as little personal data as possible in these large datasets to protect privacy. Establishment of data cooperatives with restricted access may be a solution to this dilemma.
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Assunto principal:
Estudos Epidemiológicos
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Saúde Mental
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Epidemiologia
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Doenças Transmissíveis
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Coleta de Dados
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Armazenamento e Recuperação da Informação
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Privacidade
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Internet
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Telefone Celular
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Sistemas de Informação Geográfica
Tipo de estudo:
Estudo observacional
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Estudo prognóstico
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Estudo de rastreamento
Limite:
Humanos
Idioma:
Inglês
Revista:
Healthcare Informatics Research
Ano de publicação:
2018
Tipo de documento:
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