Digital Data, Equity and Epidemiology
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Digital Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (18 December 2022) | Viewed by 1460
Special Issue Editor
Interests: social justice; inequity; computational epidemiology; social media; digital platforms; big data; search queries; health disparities
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The growing field of social data science involves developing new methodological and data collection methods to extract information from this social data that enable us to uncover information about the real world. This Special Issue seeks to provide a landscape of the developing the tools and techniques to analyze digital data and how this data relates to uncovering individual and social behavior and the relationship between disparate distributions of disease morbidity and mortality among underserved populations across the globe, including racial and ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+ persons.
Submissions that examine the historical underpinnings and intersectionality of oppression on population health outcomes that use new big data methods of creating and collecting data, analytical and statistical techniques, or new ways of visualizing and presenting information are of particular interest. Research that examines how these intersectional oppressions are engendered and reinforced through structural, sociocultural, and economic mechanisms that (1) perpetuate health inequities experienced and communicated at the state, community, local, and individual levels and (2) play a role(s) in driving and exacerbating epidemics, pandemics, such as COVID-19, and syndemics are highly recommended.
Authors from diverse disciplinary perspectives, leveraging dynamic quantitative and qualitative methodologies, are invited to submit, including epidemiology, public health, health policy, social and behavioral sciences, epidemiology, biostatistics, anthropology, psychology, sociology, economics, education, human geography, engineering, computer science, and statistics. Papers concerning implications for policymaking are welcome.
Dr. Yulin Hswen
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- technology and innovation
- geography
- spatiotemporal analysis
- digital data
- social media
- computational epidemiology
- clinical informatics
- population health
- vertical and horizontal health inequities
- life changes in relation to larger sociopolitical forces: war, COVID-19, etc.
- methodological approaches to studying inequalities (e.g., digital epidemiology, anthropologically informed approaches: photovoice and ethnographic interviews)
- intersectional stigmas (e.g., racism, homophobia, and disease-specific discrimination)
- health and social inequities across levels: individual, local, state, national, trans-national, and global
- racial and ethnic origin
- gender
- sexual orientation and gender identity/identities
- immigration, migration, and documentation status
- social class, mobility, income, and opportunities for wealth-building job opportunities, workforce equity, unemployment, and underemployment
- substance use, addiction, and harm reduction
- health and health service delivery
- education
