ReviewFrontiers in public health2023
Using artificial intelligence to improve public health: a narrative review.
Review in Frontiers in public health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 103 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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103 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 212 citations in OpenAlex.
- Interactive Conversational Agents to Improve Dietary Behaviors for Health Promotion: Mixed Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Pooled it
- Opportunities and challenges of artificial intelligence in public health: a systematic review on technological efficacy, ethical dilemmas, and governance pathways.Frontiers in public health · 2025Pooled it
- Comparing AI-Assisted Coding and Traditional Qualitative Analysis: a Study Examining Differences in Methods and Results of AI-Assisted Coding and Traditional Content Coding Using Community Engagement Data Collected During the Development of a Municipal Food Plan.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2026Article
- The Application of Artificial Intelligence in Public Health Surveillance in Portugal: An Exploratory Study of Expert Perspectives.Portuguese journal of public health · 2026Article
- Beyond Regulatory Approval: Lifecycle Assurance for Clinical Artificial Intelligence.Journal of medical systems · 2026Article
- Stakeholder Perspectives on Health System Readiness for Integrating Artificial Intelligence into Public Health in Saudi Arabia.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- AI-Driven Dentistry and Public Health Surveillance: Opportunities and Challenges.Public health challenges · 2026Review
- Advanced molecular detection, bioinformatics, and artificial intelligence era in medical laboratory science education.Journal of microbiology & biology education · 2026Article
- Lessons from Smart Cart 2.0: Considerations for Integrating Purchasing Data into Healthy Eating Interventions with AI Approaches.The Journal of nutrition · 2026Article
- Survey-based insights on overcoming barriers in healthcare innovation ecosystems.Nature biotechnology · 2026Article
- Large Language Model-Generated Patient Instructions for Prescriptions in Primary Health Care: Preclinical Algorithm Validation.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Article
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Public Health: Emerging Applications, Clinical Integration and Future Directions.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Bridging Traditional Modeling and Artificial Intelligence in Measles Epidemiology: Methods, Applications, and Future Directions-A Narrative Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- AI-enabled proactive health education: perceptions of public health students - a qualitative study.BMC medical education · 2026Article
- Artificial Intelligence For 6P Medicine: Consolidating AI Needs of Predictive, Preventive, Personalized, Participatory, Precision, and Public Health Trajectories.Journal of medical systems · 2026Review
- Comparison of Artificial Intelligence Tools With Human Coding for Sentiment, Topic, and Thematic Analysis Tasks of Public Health Datasets During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Australia: Case Study.Online journal of public health informatics · 2026Article
- Digital epidemiology: Utilizing big data for public health surveillance and disease outbreak prediction.Journal of public health research · 2026Review
- Artificial Intelligence in Population-Level Gastroenterology and Hepatology: A Comprehensive Review of Public Health Applications and Quantitative Impact.Digestive diseases and sciences · 2026Review
- Ten Healthcare Delivery Trends and Their Measurement and Methodological Implications for Cancer Health Services Research.Health services research · 2026Article
- Role of Digital Health Technologies and Artificial Intelligence in Modern Public Health Surveillance.Cureus · 2026Review
43 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Authors and funding
6 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a rapidly evolving tool revolutionizing many aspects of healthcare. AI has been predominantly employed in medicine and healthcare administration. However, in public health, the widespread employment of AI only began recently, with the advent of COVID-19. This review examines the advances of AI in public health and the potential challenges that lie ahead. Some of the ways AI has aided public health delivery are via spatial modeling, risk prediction, misinformation control, public health surveillance, disease forecasting, pandemic/epidemic modeling, and health diagnosis. However, the implementation of AI in public health is not universal due to factors including limited infrastructure, lack of technical understanding, data paucity, and ethical/privacy issues.
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