Editorial Board Members' Collection Series: Real World—Big Data Analytics with Applications in Ecology, Environmental Health, and Public Health
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 February 2025 | Viewed by 3003
Special Issue Editors
2. IRCCS Humanitas Research Hospital, Via Manzoni 56, Rozzano, 20089 Milan, Italy
Interests: evidence based medicine; systematic reviews; meta-analysis; network meta-analysis; research methodology
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2. Department of Radiation Oncology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
Interests: statistical methods; epidemiological study design; risk modeling; cardiovascular disease; cancer
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Dear Colleagues,
In the digital era, the real world is translated into a multitude of variables, and each of these variables can have a lot of cases. The first objective of public health is to distinguish risks and protective factors considering that today, even the psychosocial well-being of the person and human rights are important, and health is no longer just the absence of physical and mental illness. However, any raw variable of big data (i.e., any column of a full dataset) is not necessarily shown as one health variable (i.e., risks or protective factors for health, or indicators of well-being or ill-being). Big data analytics implicate and aggregate different indicators of the same health variable (to avoid collinearity or semantic redundancy), but also collect the needed variables to represent reality, which is the aim of current studies.
If big data include a lot information that is relevant to the current public health, it is possible to establish the implications that these studies have for improved decision making by using common analytical techniques such as data mining, machine learning and deep learning. It is also possible to harness statistical power with gigantic sample sizes to test even the more intangible theoretical issues of psychosocial health (usually, with a small effect-size). While working with a person’s health and ill-being information, it is also necessary to consider scientific integrity issues such as people’s privacy, data sharing, bias, and uncertainty as other factors that need to be analyzed in studies.
As big data are becoming a new reality in public health science, all high quality and relevant theories and applied studies that use statistical analyses with big data will be welcome to publish in this Collection.
We are pleased to announce this Collection titled, “Editorial Board Members' Collection Series: Real World—Big Data Analytics”. This issue will be a collection of papers from researchers invited by the Editorial Board Members. The aim is to provide a venue for networking and communication between IJERPH and scholars in the field of big data analytics and health statistics. All papers will be published as fully open access after peer review.
Dr. Stefanos Bonovas
Prof. Dr. Jimmy T. Efird
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- real-world data
- real-world evidence
- big data
- health
- health care
- healthcare
- health statistics
