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ReviewYearbook of medical informatics2020

Public Health and Epidemiology Informatics: Recent Research Trends Moving toward Public Health Data Science.

Sébastien Cossin, Rodolphe Thiébaut, Section Editors for the IMIA Yearbook Section on Public Health and Epidemiology Informatics

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Review in Yearbook of medical informatics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Sébastien CossinUniv. Bordeaux, Inserm, Bordeaux Population Health Research Center, UMR 1219, Bordeaux, France.
Rodolphe ThiébautUniv. Bordeaux, Inserm, Bordeaux Population Health Research Center, UMR 1219, Bordeaux, France.
Section Editors for the IMIA Yearbook Section on Public Health and Epidemiology Informatics

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesTo introduce and summarize current research in the field of Public Health and Epidemiology Informatics.

methodsPubMed searches of 2019 literature concerning public health and epidemiology informatics were conducted and the returned references were reviewed by the two section editors to select 14 candidate best papers. These papers were then peer-reviewed by external reviewers to allow the Editorial Committee a curated selection of the best papers.

resultsAmong the 835 references retrieved from PubMed, two were finally selected as best papers. The first best paper leverages satellite images and deep learning to identify remote rural communities in low-income countries; the second paper describes the development of a worldwide human disease surveillance system based on near real-time news data from the GDELT project. Internet data and electronic health records are still widely used to detect and monitor disease activity. Identifying and targeting specific audiences for public health interventions is a growing subject of interest.

conclusionsThe ever-increasing amount of data available offers endless opportunities to develop methods and tools that could assist public health surveillance and intervention belonging to the growing field of public health Data Science. The transition from proofs of concept to real world applications and adoption by health authorities remains a difficult leap to make.

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EpidemiologyInformaticsPublic HealthDatabases, FactualHealth Services AccessibilityHumansNatural Language Processing

Identifiers

PMID32823321
PMCPMC7442523

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