Epidemiological research in the big data era: opportunities, challenges and prospectives
10.3760/cma.j.cn112338-20201203-01377
- VernacularTitle:大数据时代的流行病学研究：机遇、挑战与展望
- Author:
Yuzhuo WANG
1
;
Hongxia MA
;
Guangfu JIN
;
Zhibin HU
;
Hongbing SHEN
Author Information
1. 南京医科大学公共卫生学院/南京医科大学省部共建肿瘤个体化医学协同创新中心 211166
- Keywords:
Health care big data;
Epidemiological research;
Systems epidemiology;
Multidisciplinary integration
- From:
Chinese Journal of Epidemiology
2021;42(1):10-14
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Recent years with the rapid progress in high-throughput omics techniques, the accumulation of population cohorts and biobanks, great advances in internet and information technology, and the emerging tools for big data utilization, health care big data provide abundant data resources and broad research platforms for epidemiological research. We aimed to review the opportunities and challenges of epidemiological research in the era of big data, and explore the future development of epidemiology. Epidemiology should seize the opportunities, open up new directions, develop new methods, and promote the translation of research results into public health and clinical medicine, which will eventually realize the vision of "Healthy China".
