信息流行病学研究进展

Research progress in infodemiology study

搜索引擎和社交媒体等网络技术的普及为实时管理用户生成数据提供了机会。通过对网络来源的数据分析,可以了解人们所关注的健康问题,用于传染病流行的预测和慢性非传染性疾病的监测等。信息流行病学(Infodemiology,也称Information Epidemiology)由此产生,旨在研究电子媒介中健康信息的发生、分布和影响因素,以提高人们对疾病和健康问题的认识,并为疾病防控策略的制定提供依据。本文针对信息流行病学的研究进展进行概述。

Web technologies,such as search engines and social media,have provided an opportunity for the management of user generated data in real time.Through the analysis of these web-based data,people can understand the health issues of concern,which can be used for the prediction of the epidemic of infectious diseases and the monitoring of chronic non-communicable diseases.The emergence of Infodemiology,also known as Information Epidemiology,aims to study the occurrence,distribution and influencing factors of health information from electronic medium,so as to raise awareness of disease and health problems among people,and provide the basis for the formulation of disease prevention and control strategies.This review summarizes the research progress in Infodemiology.