Digital epidemiology and global health security; an interdisciplinary conversation

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8248594
AutoresTim Eckmanns (0000-0002-4022-4944, Robert Koch Institute, autor de correspondencia), Henning Füller (0000-0002-0720-1679, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Stephen L Roberts (0000-0002-6628-6780), Stephen Roberts (0000-0002-6730-3108, London School of Economics and Political Science)
Año2019
Volumen15
Número1
Páginas2-2
Fecha de publicación2019-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLife Sciences Society and Policy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2195-7819 • E-ISSN: 2195-7819
EditorialSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1186/s40504-019-0091-8
PMID30887141
OpenAlexW2929290098
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas26

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

Big data · Conversation · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Global health · Pathology · Philosophy of science · Political science · Praxis · Public health · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Global Health and Surgery · Global Security and Public Health · Law · Medicine · Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research