Eckmanns, Tim;
Füller, Henning;
Roberts, Stephen L;
(2019)
Digital epidemiology and global health security; an interdisciplinary conversation.
Life Sciences, Society and Policy
, 15
, Article 2. 10.1186/s40504-019-0091-8.
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Abstract
Contemporary infectious disease surveillance systems aim to employ the speed and scope of big data in an attempt to provide global health security. Both shifts - the perception of health problems through the framework of global health security and the corresponding technological approaches – imply epistemological changes, methodological ambivalences as well as manifold societal effects. Bringing current findings from social sciences and public health praxis into a dialogue, this conversation style contribution points out several broader implications of changing disease surveillance. The conversation covers epidemiological issues such as the shift from expert knowledge to algorithmic knowledge, the securitization of global health, and the construction of new kinds of threats. Those developments are detailed and discussed in their impacts for health provision in a broader sense.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Digital epidemiology and global health security; an interdisciplinary conversation |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s40504-019-0091-8 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s40504-019-0091-8 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
| Keywords: | Digital epidemiology, Big data, Algorithms, Infectious disease, Global health, Security |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute for Global Health |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10169295 |
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