Leveraging "big data" to enhance the effectiveness of "one health" in an era of health informatics

Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 311-314

  Asokan, G V ^a   Asokan, Vanitha ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAHRAIN   (Bahrain)

^b American Mission Hospital   (Bahrain)

Author keywords

Big data; Health informatics; One health; Zoonoses

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; BIG DATA; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA MINING; DATA VARIABILITY; DATA VARIETY; DATA VELOCITY; DATA VERACITY; DATA VOLATILITY; DATA VOLUME; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EVENT BASED SURVEILLANCE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INDICATOR BASED SURVEILLANCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFORMATION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MORTALITY; MULTI STRUCTURED DATA; ONE HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNSTRUCTURED DATA; VALIDITY; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEALTH; INFORMATION SYSTEM; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84946493939     PISSN: 22106006     EISSN: 22106014     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jegh.2015.02.001     Document Type: Article

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