Data Science for Environment and Health Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Data science and analytics is a growing academic discipline, and has applications in numerous fields, including environmental science and health-related research. The significant advances in data capture, storage and analytic technologies have given rise to immense data augmentation. Inadvertently, this has resulted in the requirement of low-cost and computationally efficient techniques which are needed to analyse data in order to provide pertinent and purposeful insights. These insights inform policy making, organisational practices, future research trajectories and, most importantly, the sustainability of our societies in terms of our health and environment. This Special Issue concentrates on state-of-the-art data science techniques, practices and applications within this field. Manuscripts are welcome for this Special Issue with the focus placed on the latest advances of data analytics methods that address the research challenges in the environmental science and public health fields. To date, plenty of research is conducted in this field and relates, for example, to the choice of the technique, methodological development, ability to capture specific healthcare informatics, etc. Particular emphasis is placed on complexity, spatial and temporal reasoning and managing uncertainty. The scope of this Special Issue includes but is not limited to the following key areas:

• Data science application in public healthcare informatics;
• Methods, techniques in data collecting for public healthcare;
• Health economic case studies; health-related quality of life;
• Medical and clinical data analysis case studies;
• Machine learning methods in health science;
• Deep learning methods with applications in health science;
• Intelligent medical diagnosis;
• Applications of AI in healthcare;
• Medical information systems;
• Smart healthcare systems;
• Coastal flooding and erosion;
• Quantifying and modelling wildfire risk;
• Mangrove forest resilience;
• Copula models in modelling extreme climatic events;
• Approximation of the impacts of environmental changes on public health;
• Sustainability and resilience modelling and simulation;
• Estimations in food systems and environmental capacity;
• Systematic review and meta-analysis studies in environmental science and public health;
• Emerging data science techniques and technologies for environmental science and public health research;
• Bootstrapping and Monte Carlo simulations for risk prediction;
• Statistical/epidemiological modelling of disease risk;
• Health hazards of environmental pollution and degradation.

Dr. Alireza Daneshkhah
Prof. Dr. Amin Hosseinian-Far
Prof. Dr. Vasile Palade
Dr. Samer A. Kharroubi
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2500 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.