Mapping precision public health definitions, terminology and applications: a scoping review protocol

Abstract

IntroductionPrecision public health is an emerging and evolving field. Academic communities are divided regarding terminology and definitions, and what the scope, parameters and goals of precision public health should include. This protocol summarises the procedure for a scoping review which aims to identify and describe definitions, terminology, uses of the term and concepts in current literature.Methods and analysisA scoping review will be undertaken to gather existing literature on precision public health. We will search CINAHL, PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science and Google Scholar, and include all documents published in English that mention precision public health. A critical discourse analysis of the resulting papers will generate an account of precision public health terminology, definitions and uses of the term and the use and meaning of language. The analysis will occur in stages: first, descriptive information will be extracted and descriptive statistics will be calculated in order to characterise the literature. Second, occurrences of the phrase ‘precision public health’ and alternative terms in documents will be enumerated and mapped, and definitions collected. The third stage of discourse analysis will involve analysis and interpretation of the meaning of precision public health, including the composition, organisation and function of discourses. Finally, discourse analysis of alternative phrases to precision public health will be undertaken. This will include analysis and interpretation of what alternative phrases to precision public health are used to mean, how the phrases relate to each other and how they are compared or contrasted to precision public health. Results will be grouped under headings according to how they answer the research questions.Ethics and disseminationNo ethical approval will be required for the scoping review. Results of the scoping review will be used as part of a doctoral thesis, and may be published in journals, conference proceedings or elsewhere.

ANALYSIS OF GLOBAL RESEARCH TRENDS IN THE INTERNET OF THINGS (IoT) AREA WITH NETWORK MAP TECHNIQUE

“…The selection, assessment, and synthesis of pertinent literature from various sources, including books, journal articles, conference proceedings, and other published and unpublished materials, are part of this process. A literature review's main goals are to provide a critical evaluation of the literature on a particular topic, identify knowledge gaps, and suggest potential directions for further studies (Goggin, 2012;Bosward et al, 2022;Momen and Pilus, 2022;Sheth, 2023). The links and interplay between IoT, network visualization, network mapping techniques, bibliometric analysis, and VOSviewer applications are examined in theliterature review.…”

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“…For this reason, Hekler et al [18] noted that the full potential of precision efforts will only be achieved if precision is applied across the spectrum of health, including population health and public health [23], not just medicine. Based on these limitations in precision medicine, several approaches have been developed in precision research in recent years: precision public health, precision health and precision prevention [10,12,13,[24][25][26][27].…”