Digital Public Health Surveillance Tools for Alcohol Use and HIV Risk Behaviors

Overview

Journal AIDS Behav

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2021 Mar 17

PMID 33730254

Citations 7

Authors

Renee Garett

Sean D Young

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Abstract

There is a need for real-time and predictive data on alcohol use both broadly and specific to HIV. However, substance use and HIV data often suffer from lag times in reporting as they are typically measured from surveys, clinical case visits and other methods requiring extensive time for collection and analysis. Social big data might help to address this problem and be used to provide near real-time assessments of people's alcohol use and/or alcohol. This manuscript describes three types of social data sources (i.e., social media data, internet search data, and wearable device data) that might be used in surveillance of alcohol and HIV, and then discusses the implications and potential of implementing them as additional tools for public health surveillance.

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