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ReviewPublic health reviews2022

Geoprivacy in Neighbourhoods and Health Research: A Mini-Review of the Challenges and Best Practices in Epidemiological Studies.

Ana Isabel Ribeiro, Vasco Dias, Sofia Ribeiro, José Pedro Silva, Henrique Barros

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Review in Public health reviews, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Planning a Regional Data Ecosystem for Public Health Preparedness and Response.Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMP
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Ana Isabel RibeiroEPIUnit-Instituto de Saúde Pública, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Vasco DiasEPIUnit-Instituto de Saúde Pública, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Sofia RibeiroEPIUnit-Instituto de Saúde Pública, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
José Pedro SilvaEPIUnit-Instituto de Saúde Pública, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Henrique BarrosEPIUnit-Instituto de Saúde Pública, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neighbourhood and health research often relies on personal location data (e.g., home address, daily itineraries), despite the risks of geoprivacy breaches. Thus, geoprivacy is an important emerging topic, contemplated in international regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation. In this mini-review, we briefly assess the potential risks associated with the usage of personal location data and provide geoprivacy-preserving recommendations to be considered in epidemiological research. Risks include inference of personal information that the individual does not wish to disclose, reverse-identification and security breaches. Various measures should be implemented at different stages of a project (pre-data collection, data processing, data analysis/publication and data sharing) such as informed consent, pseudo-anonymization and geographical methods.

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anonymizationconfidentialitydata protectionepidemiologyneighbourhoodsprivacypublic health

Identifiers

PMID36387420
PMCPMC9648061

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