Digital epidemiology and global health security; an interdisciplinary conversation

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8248594
AutoresTim Eckmanns (0000-0002-4022-4944, Robert Koch Institute, autor correspondente), 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)
Ano2019
Volume15
Fascículo1
Páginas2-2
Data de publicação2019-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLife Sciences Society and Policy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2195-7819 • E-ISSN: 2195-7819
EditoraSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1186/s40504-019-0091-8
PMID30887141
OpenAlexW2929290098
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências 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