Research in Progress on Integrating Health and Environmental Data in Epidemiological Studies

摘要

Epidemiological studies analyze and monitor the health state of a population. They typically use different methods and techniques to capture and to integrate data of interest before they can be analyzed. As new technologies and, thus, devices are available for data capturing, such as wearables, new requirements arise for current data integration approaches. In this paper, we review current techniques and approaches as well as new trends in data capturing and the resulting requirement for its integration.