Digital Epidemiology
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- 26 July 2012
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Computational Biology
- Vol. 8 (7) , e1002616
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002616
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.Keywords
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