Sources of spatial animal and human health data: Casting the net wide to deal more effectively with increasingly complex disease problems

Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology

Volumn 13, Issue , 2015, Pages 15-29

  Stevens, Kim B ^a   Pfeiffer, Dirk U ^a  

^a ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Big data; Data warehouse; Google Earth; MHealth; Spatial data; Volunteered geographic information

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HEALTH; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CROWDSOURCING; DATA BASE; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; DATA MINING; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; GOOGLE FLU TREND; HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REMOTE SENSING; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TREND STUDY; VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION; AFRICA; ANIMAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PROCEDURES; TELEMEDICINE; WEB BROWSER;

AFRICA, WESTERN; ANIMALS; DATA MINING; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; TELEMEDICINE; WEB BROWSER;

EID: 84929581672     PISSN: 18775845     EISSN: 18775853     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sste.2015.04.003     Document Type: Review

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