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Detecting the Determinants of Health in Social Media
Content Type: Abstract
The explosive use of social media sites presents a unique opportunity for developing alternative methods for understanding the health of the public. The near ubiquity of smartphones has further increased the volume and resolution of data that is… read more… The explosive use of social media sites presents a unique opportunity for developing … and resolution of data that is shared through these sites. The emerging field of digital epidemiology has … The explosive use of social media sites presents a unique opportunity for developing … -
in silico Surveillance: Using Detailed Computer Simulations to Develop and Evaluate Outbreak Detection
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Developing and evaluating outbreak detection is challenging for many reasons. A central difficulty is that the data the detection algorithms are “trained” on are often relatively short historical samples and thus do not represent the full… read more… Bioinformatics Institute, Vir- ginia Tech †Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care OBJECTIVE Developing and evaluating detection … digital representa- tions, of every person. These agents visit specific loca- tions throughout the area of study and … -
ChatterGrabber: A Lightweight Easy to Use Social Media Surveillance Toolkit
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Despite numerous successes in using social media to detect food borne illness and to predict influenza trends, the use of social media as a public health tool has yet to gain widespread adoption. While social media data cannot directly diagnose… read more… as it is not dependent upon infected individuals seeking care for reportable illnesses and as such information is not … as it is not dependent upon infected individuals seeking care for reportable illnesses and as such information is not … -
in silico Surveillance: Highly detailed agent-based models for surveillance system evaluation and design
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Modern public health surveillance systems have great potential for improving public health. However, evaluating the performance of surveillance systems is challenging because examples of baseline disease distribution in the population are limited to… read more… seeking behavior and a surveillance system for outpatient visits. The resulting in silico surveil- lance data contain … specified surveillance system create a data stream of ILI visits. Outbreaks of influenza are artificially inserted … -
in silico Surveillance: Informing Surveillance with Simulation
Content Type: Webinar
Simulations of infectious disease spread have increasingly been used to inform public policy for planning and response to outbreaks. As these techniques have increased in sophistication a wider array of uses becomes appropriate. In particular,… read more… ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 0 200 400 600 0 2 0 4 0 6 0 8 0 Clinic visits and Recurrence Interval − Real HPHC data Days V is it … ● ● ● ● ● ● 0 200 400 600 0 2 0 4 0 6 0 8 0 1 0 0 Clinic visits and Recurrence Interval − Run 1 Days V is it s t o t … ● ● ● ● ● ● 0 200 400 600 0 2 0 4 0 6 0 8 0 1 0 0 Clinic visits and Recurrence Interval − Run 1 Days V is it s t o t …