Public Health and Epidemiology Informatics: Can Artificial Intelligence Help Future Global Challenges? An Overview of Antimicrobial Resistance and Impact of Climate Change in Disease Epidemiology.

Journal: Yearbook of medical informatics
PMID: 31419836

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: To provide an oveiview of the current application of artificial intelligence (AI) in the field of public health and epidemiology, with a special focus on antimicrobial resistance and the impact of climate change in disease epidemiology. Both topics are of vital importance and were included in the "Ten threats to global health in 2019" report published by the World Health Organization.

Authors

  • Alejandro Rodríguez-González
    ETS de Ingenieros Informáticos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo, Boadilla del Monte, 28660 Madrid, Spain. Electronic address: alejandro.rodriguezg@upm.es.
  • Massimiliano Zanin
    Centro de Tecnología Biomédica, Campus de Montegancedo, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Pozuelo de Alarcon, 28223, Madrid, Spain.
  • Ernestina Menasalvas-Ruiz
    Centro de Tecnología Biomédica, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

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