Data Blindspots: High-Tech Disease Surveillance Misses the Poor
Data Blindspots: High-Tech Disease Surveillance Misses the Poor
Influenza hospitalizations are positively associated with poverty. Therefore, individuals in lower socioeconomic brackets are considered to be members of at-risk populations. With the goal of improving situational awareness, we developed a framework for combining multiple data sources to predict at-risk hospitalizations. The data sources considered were: emergency departments, primary health …