HSCI 319W Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Google Flu Trends, Contact Tracing, Big Data
17 Mar 2018
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Clear engagement with ideas/creativity and understanding of frameworks/principles used. Public health surveillance: purpose -> improve public health or designing interventions, can be better understanding how many people have a chronic disease -> use big data, digitalize health records to be easily accessible to many professionals. Anonymized: does not identify individuals: no way of identifying individual (person behind data, cannot link or connect to anyone (no tracking) Identifiable data can be needed to respond to public health needs: health records. > want to know about blood test and relay to specialist. > track disease outbreak identifiable data can still be confidential: ex. Interviews -> identify information and statements but when published, it is not known who said it (not sharing information publically) Passive: healthcare providers submit data as required by law: ex. Labs, infectious diseases, reporting info around criminal activity (sexual assault: may be unaware of it.
