Syndromic surveillance in the United Arab Emirates

Boman, Magnus; Hosani, Farida Al; Cakici, Baki; Guttmann, Christian; Mannaei, Asma Al

doi:10.1109/innovations.2012.6207758

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“…Syndromic surveillance, the collective term for capturing early or weak signals of macro-level behaviors and encoding them in quantitative terms, such as the number of ambulance dispatches or the volume of headache remedies sold over the counter in a particular period [21], will likewise constitute a form of sampling. It is difficult to create an efficient and cost-effective system for syndromic surveillance [22,23], but it may contribute towards health goals from a policy point of view in many countries, especially those in which digital data flows and reporting systems are already in place [24]. The aforementioned app may thus be stream-sampled in real time, but the data amassed in its back-end may also undergo data analysis, be subjected to some form of information fusion or synthesis, and finally be made sense of.…”

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Supporting global health goals with information and communications technology

Boman

Kruse

2017

Global Health Action

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The objective of this study is to critically assess the possible roles of information and communications technology (ICT) in supporting global health goals. This is done by considering privilege and connectibility. In short, ICT can contribute by providing health information via four different kinds of access, each with its own history and prospective future. All four are analyzed here, in two perspectives: business-as-usual and disruptive. Health data analytics is difficult since the digital representation of past, current, and future health information is lacking. The flow of analytics that may prove beneficial to the individual and not just meet abstract population-level goals or ambitions is analyzed in detail. Sensemaking is also needed, to meet the minimum requirement of making prospective future services understandable to policymakers. Drivers as well as barriers for areas in which policy decisions have the potential to drive positive developments for meeting the Sustainable Development Goals are identified.

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Supporting global health goals with information and communications technology

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2017

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“…For example, recent work was able to correlate trends in Twitter messages that mention influenza with influenza rates as documented by the Centers for Disease Control in the USA. 40 41 Social media may also provide important information on health behaviours. Owing to the lack of available data on midwakh/dokha use, utilising information from social media data banks could provide new and important information on patterns of use, geographic distribution, temporal trends and user perceptions.…”

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Midwakh/dokha tobacco use in the Middle East: much to learn

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Many alternative tobacco products (ATPs), such as hookahs, have grown in popularity and use beyond their locale of origin and are therefore becoming a significant global public health concern. This article provides an overview of an under-reported and understudied ATP, dokha, which is smoked in a midwakh pipe. It describes the state of tobacco control in the Arabian Gulf region where midwakh smoking appears to be most common, the history of midwakh and dokha use, and what is known about midwakh smoking from the published literature. On the basis of the stark lack of data on midwakh use, we suggest priority areas to focus future research. Preliminary data and observations from health providers and the public health sector suggest that midwakh smoking may pose challenges to the tobacco control efforts in the Arabian Gulf region. If it is emerging as a new ATP outside this region, there could be a significant impact on tobacco control strategies globally.

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“…Such systems use indicators for alerting epidemiologists and other health workers via early signals of the onset of symptoms. We have previously been involved with specifying such a system for the UAE (Boman, Cakici, Guttmann, Al Hosani, & Al Mannaei, 2012). The Health Authorities in Abu Dhabi (HAAD) have an advanced eNotification system (e-IDN, see Health Authority -Abu Dhabi, 2012) for tracking communicable diseases (Underwood, 2009).…”

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Knowing Your Population: Privacy-Sensitive Mining of Massive Data

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Location and mobility patterns of individuals are important to environmental planning, societal resilience, public health, and a host of commercial applications. Mining telecommunication traffic and transactions data for such purposes is controversial, in particular raising issues of privacy. However, our hypothesis is that privacy-sensitive uses are possible and often beneficial enough to warrant considerable research and development efforts. Our work contends that peoples' behavior can yield patterns of both significant commercial, and research, value. For such purposes, methods and algorithms for mining telecommunication data to extract commonly used routes and locations, articulated through time-geographical constructs, are described in a case study within the area of transportation planning and analysis. From the outset, these were designed to balance the privacy of subscribers and the added value of mobility patterns derived from their mobile communication traffic and transactions data. Our work directly contrasts the current, commonly held notion that value can only be added to services by directly monitoring the behavior of individuals, such as in current attempts at location-based services. We position our work within relevant legal frameworks for privacy and data protection, and show that our methods comply with such requirements and also follow best-practices.

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Syndromic surveillance in the United Arab Emirates

Cited by 6 publications

References 22 publications

Supporting global health goals with information and communications technology

Supporting global health goals with information and communications technology

Midwakh/dokha tobacco use in the Middle East: much to learn

Knowing Your Population: Privacy-Sensitive Mining of Massive Data

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