Internet biosurveillance, or Digital Disease Detection, represents a new paradigm of Public Health Governance. While traditional approaches to health prognosis operated with data collected in the clinical diagnosis, Internet biosurveillance studies use the methods and infrastructures of Health Informatics. That means, more precisely, that they use unstructured data from different web-based sources and targets using the collected and processed data and information about changes in health-related behavior. The two main tasks of the Internet biosurveillance are (1) the early detection of epidemic diseases, biochemical, radiological, and nuclear threats (Brownstein et.al. 2009) and (2) the implementation of strategies and measures of sustainable governance in the target areas of health promotion and health education (Walters et al. 2010). Biosurveillance has established itself as an independent discipline in the mid-1990s, as military and civilian agencies began to get interested in...
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Reichert, R. (2017). Biosurveillance. In: Schintler, L., McNeely, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Big Data. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32001-4_27-1
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