Volume 5, Issue 4, December 2015, Pages 311 - 314
Leveraging “big data” to enhance the effectiveness of “one health” in an era of health informatics
Authors
G.V. Asokana, *, agvaithinathan@uob.edu.bh, Vanitha Asokanb, 1, kidzdoc311@gmail.com
aPublic Health Program, College of Health Sciences, University of Bahrain, PO Box 32038, Bahrain
bPediatrics Department, American Mission Hospital, Manama, PO Box 1, Bahrain
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Corresponding Author
G.V. Asokanagvaithinathan@uob.edu.bh
Received 23 December 2014, Revised 1 February 2015, Accepted 4 February 2015, Available Online 5 March 2015.
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jegh.2015.02.001How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- One health; Big data; Zoonoses; Health informatics
- Abstract
Zoonoses constitute 61% of all known infectious diseases. The major obstacles to control zoonoses include insensitive systems and unreliable data. Intelligent handling of the cost effective big data can accomplish the goals of one health to detect disease trends, outbreaks, pathogens and causes of emergence in human and animals.
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- © 2015 Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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TY - JOUR AU - G.V. Asokan AU - Vanitha Asokan PY - 2015 DA - 2015/03/05 TI - Leveraging “big data” to enhance the effectiveness of “one health” in an era of health informatics JO - Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health SP - 311 EP - 314 VL - 5 IS - 4 SN - 2210-6014 UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jegh.2015.02.001 DO - 10.1016/j.jegh.2015.02.001 ID - Asokan2015 ER -