Digital epidemiology.
review · Level V
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 22844241.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002616 and PMC identifier 3406005.
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Abstract
Mobile, social, real-time: the ongoing revolution in the way people communicate has given rise to a new kind of epidemiology. Digital data sources, when harnessed appropriately, can provide local and timely information about disease and health dynamics in populations around the world. The rapid, unprecedented increase in the availability of relevant data from various digital sources creates considerable technical and computational challenges.
Medical subject headings
- Computational Biology
- Epidemiologic Methods
- Internet
- Software