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ArticleHeliyon2023

Big data-driven public health policy making: Potential for the healthcare industry.

Kang Chao, Md Nazirul Islam Sarker, Isahaque Ali, R B Radin Firdaus, Azlinda Azman, Maslina Mohammed Shaed

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Article in Heliyon, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24citing papers in PubMed
20.8field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 55 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Kang ChaoSchool of Economics and Management, Neijiang Normal University, Neijiang, 641199, China.
Md Nazirul Islam SarkerSchool of Social Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, USM, Pinang, 11800, Malaysia.
Isahaque AliSchool of Social Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, USM, Pinang, 11800, Malaysia.
R B Radin FirdausSchool of Social Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, USM, Pinang, 11800, Malaysia.
Azlinda AzmanSchool of Social Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, USM, Pinang, 11800, Malaysia.
Maslina Mohammed ShaedSchool of Social Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, USM, Pinang, 11800, Malaysia.
Universiti Sains Malaysia · MYNeijiang Normal University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The use of healthcare data analytics is anticipated to play a significant role in future public health policy formulation. Therefore, this study examines how big data analytics (BDA) may be methodically incorporated into various phases of the health policy cycle for fact-based and precise health policy decision-making. So, this study explores the potential of BDA for accurate and rapid policy-making processes in the healthcare industry. A systematic review of literature spanning 22 years (from January 2001 to January 2023) has been conducted using the PRISMA approach to develop a conceptual framework. The study introduces the emerging topic of BDA in healthcare policy, goes over the advantages, presents a framework, advances instances from the literature, reveals difficulties and provides recommendations. This study argues that BDA has the ability to transform the conventional policy-making process into data-driven process, which helps to make accurate health policy decision. In addition, this study contends that BDA is applicable to the different stages of health policy cycle, namely policy identification, agenda setting as well as policy formulation, implementation and evaluation. Currently, descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics are used for public health policy decisions on data obtained from several common health-related big data sources like electronic health reports, public health records, patient and clinical data, and government and social networking sites. To effectively utilize all of the data, it is necessary to overcome the computational, algorithmic and technological obstacles that define today's extremely heterogeneous data landscape, as well as a variety of legal, normative, governance and policy limitations. Big data can only fulfill its full potential if data are made available and shared. This enables public health institutions and policymakers to evaluate the impact and risk of policy changes at the population level.

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Big data analyticsData-driven policyHealth communicationPolicy processPublic health policies

Identifiers

PMID37809720
PMCPMC10558940
OpenAlexW4386333367

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