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- Source :
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. B, Biological Sciences, Vol. 374, No 1776 (2019) P. 20180276, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
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Abstract
- Despite continued efforts to improve health systems worldwide, emerging pathogen epidemics remain a major public health concern. Effective response to such outbreaks relies on timely intervention, ideally informed by all available sources of data. The collection, visualization and analysis of outbreak data are becoming increasingly complex, owing to the diversity in types of data, questions and available methods to address them. Recent advances have led to the rise ofoutbreak analytics, an emerging data science focused on the technological and methodological aspects of the outbreak data pipeline, from collection to analysis, modelling and reporting to inform outbreak response. In this article, we assess the current state of the field. After laying out the context of outbreak response, we critically review the most common analytics components, their inter-dependencies, data requirements and the type of information they can provide to inform operations in real time. We discuss some challenges and opportunities and conclude on the potential role of outbreak analytics for improving our understanding of, and response to outbreaks of emerging pathogens.This article is part of the theme issue ‘Modelling infectious disease outbreaks in humans, animals and plants: epidemic forecasting and control‘. This theme issue is linked with the earlier issue ‘Modelling infectious disease outbreaks in humans, animals and plants: approaches and important themes’.
- Subjects :
- Outbreak response
medicine.medical_specialty
History
Context (language use)
Review Article
Communicable Diseases, Emerging
Models, Biological
epidemics
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Disease Outbreaks
methods
Tools
03 medical and health sciences
Emerging pathogen
0302 clinical medicine
Pipeline
Methods
medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Epidemics
11 Medical and Health Sciences
030304 developmental biology
ddc:616
Evolutionary Biology
0303 health sciences
software
business.industry
Public health
Data Science
Infectious
pipeline
Outbreak
Articles
06 Biological Sciences
Data science
3. Good health
infectious
Intervention (law)
Infectious disease (medical specialty)
Analytics
tools
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
business
Software
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 09628436
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1ac62591abe4f8c948dc298f958fa185