Role of Participatory Health Informatics in Detecting and Managing Pandemics: Literature Review.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Using participatory health informatics (PHI) to detect disease outbreaks or learn about pandemics has gained interest in recent years. However, the role of PHI in understanding and managing pandemics, citizens' role in this context, and which methods are relevant for collecting and processing data are still unclear, as is which types of data are relevant. This paper aims to clarify these issues and explore the role of PHI in managing and detecting pandemics.

Methods

Through a literature review we identified studies that explore the role of PHI in detecting and managing pandemics. Studies from five databases were screened: PubMed, CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature), IEEE Xplore, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Digital Librar

SUBMITTER: Gabarron E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8432992 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature