TY - JOUR
T1 - The next public health revolution
T2 - Public health information fusion and social networks
AU - Khan, Ali S.
AU - Fleischauer, Aaron
AU - Casani, Julie
AU - Groseclose, Samuel L.
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2010 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2010/7/1
Y1 - 2010/7/1
N2 - Social, political, and economic disruptions caused by natural and humancaused public health emergencies have catalyzed public health efforts to expand the scope of biosurveillance and increase the timeliness, quality, and comprehensiveness of disease detection, alerting, response, and prediction. Unfortunately, efforts to acquire, render, and visualize the diversity of health intelligence information are hindered by its wide distribution across disparate fields, multiple levels of government, and the complex interagency environment. Achieving this new level of situation awareness within public health will require a fundamental cultural shift in methods of acquiring, analyzing, and disseminating information. The notion of information "fusion" may provide opportunities to expand data access, analysis, and information exchange to better inform public health action.
AB - Social, political, and economic disruptions caused by natural and humancaused public health emergencies have catalyzed public health efforts to expand the scope of biosurveillance and increase the timeliness, quality, and comprehensiveness of disease detection, alerting, response, and prediction. Unfortunately, efforts to acquire, render, and visualize the diversity of health intelligence information are hindered by its wide distribution across disparate fields, multiple levels of government, and the complex interagency environment. Achieving this new level of situation awareness within public health will require a fundamental cultural shift in methods of acquiring, analyzing, and disseminating information. The notion of information "fusion" may provide opportunities to expand data access, analysis, and information exchange to better inform public health action.
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U2 - 10.2105/AJPH.2009.180489
DO - 10.2105/AJPH.2009.180489
M3 - Article
C2 - 20530760
AN - SCOPUS:77953601869
SN - 0090-0036
VL - 100
SP - 1237
EP - 1242
JO - American journal of public health
JF - American journal of public health
IS - 7
ER -