Digital disease detection--harnessing the Web for public health surveillance.
Digital disease detection--harnessing the Web for public health surveillance.
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DOI：
10.1056/nejmp0900702
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2009-05-21
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Madoff LC
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Brownstein JS;Freifeld CC;Madoff LC
互联网已经成为临床医生、公共卫生从业者和普通人寻求健康信息的重要媒介。有关疾病和疫情的数据不仅通过政府机构的在线公告传播，而且还通过非正式渠道传播，从新闻报道到博客、聊天室到网络搜索分析(见方框)。总体而言，这些来源提供了一种与传统公共卫生基础设施的疾病报告所产生的根本不同的全球卫生观点。1在过去的15年里，互联网技术已经成为公共卫生监测不可或缺的一部分。使用非正式电子信息的系统被认为可以缩短确认暴发的时间，防止政府压制暴发信息，并促进对暴发和新出现疾病的公共卫生反应。由于基于网络的来源经常包含不是通过传统政府通信渠道获取的数据，它们对公共卫生机构很有用，包括世界卫生组织(世卫组织)全球疫情警报和反应网络，该网络依赖这些来源进行日常监测活动。
The Internet has become a critical medium for clinicians, public health practitioners, and lay-people seeking health information. Data about diseases and outbreaks are disseminated not only through online announcements by government agencies but also through informal channels, ranging from press reports to blogs to chat rooms to analyses of Web searches (see box). Collectively, these sources provide a view of global health that is fundamentally different from that yielded by the disease reporting of the traditional public health infrastructure. 1Over the past 15 years, Internet technology has become integral to public health surveillance. Systems using informal electronic information have been credited with reducing the time to recognition of an outbreak, preventing governments from suppressing outbreak information, and facilitating public health responses to outbreaks and emerging diseases. Because Web-based sources frequently contain data not captured through traditional government communication channels, they are useful to public health agencies, including the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network of the World Health Organization (WHO), which relies on such sources for daily surveillance activities.