Using Search Engine Data as a Tool to Predict Syphilis

Young, Sean D.; Torrone, Elizabeth; Urata, John; Aral, Sevgi O.

doi:10.1097/ede.0000000000000836

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“…Looking at recent studies, GT was used to track infectious disease data on chickenpox [13], Lyme [14], the Ebola epidemic [15], syphilis [16], conjunctivitis [17] dengue fever [18], HIV [19], sepsis [20], plague [21] and track influenza epidemics using climate data. GT is also used to forecast [22], real-time surveillance [23] or to prevent [24] diseases.…”

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Infodemiological Study Using Google Trends on Coronavirus Epidemic in Wuhan, China

Strzelecki

Rizun

2020

Int. J. Onl. Eng.

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The recent emergence of a new coronavirus (2019-nCoV) has gained a high cover in public media and worldwide news. This caused a viral pneumonia in thousands of people in Wuhan, a central city of China. This short communication gives a brief introduction on how the demand for information on this new epidemic is reported through Google Trends. Author draw conclusions on current infodemiological data on 2019-nCov using three main search queries: coronavirus, SARS and MERS. Two approaches are set. First is worldwide perspective, second is Chinese perspective. Chinese perspective reveals that in China, this disease in the beginning days was more often referred to SARS then to general coronaviruses, whereas worldwide, since the beginning is more often referred to coronaviruses.

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Section: Arxiv:200111021v1 [Csir] 29 Jan 2020mentioning

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Infodemiological Study Using Google Trends on Coronavirus Epidemic in Wuhan, China

Strzelecki

Rizun

2020

Int. J. Onl. Eng.

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“…Looking at recent studies, GT has been used to track infectious disease data on chickenpox [47], Lyme disease [48], the Ebola epidemic [49], syphilis [50], conjunctivitis [51], and dengue fever [52]. Some researchers studied mental health [53] and depression [54] queries.…”

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Google Medical Update: Why Is the Search Engine Decreasing Visibility of Health and Medical Information Websites?

Strzelecki

2020

IJERPH

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The Google search engine answers many health and medical information queries every day. People have become used to searching for this type of information. This paper presents a study which examined the visibility of health and medical information websites. The purpose of this study was to find out why Google is decreasing the visibility of such websites and how to measure this decrease. Since August 2018, Google has been more rigorously rating these websites, since they can potentially impact people’s health. The method of the study was to collect data about the visibility of health and medical information websites in sequential time snapshots. Visibility consists of combined data of unique keywords, positions, and URL results. The sample under study was made up of 21 websites selected from 10 European countries. The findings reveal that in sequential time snapshots, search visibility decreased. The decrease was not dependent on the country or the language. The main reason why Google is decreasing the visibility of such websites is that they do not meet high ranking criteria.

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“…Social media, chatbots, and mobile apps have been studied across a number of clinical and public health settings, including patient outreach, screening and monitoring; intervention delivery; remote vital sign assessment; as well for providing treatment recommendations and retaining patients in care. For example, social media discussions about HIV and syphilis-related risk behaviors can be modeled with artificial intelligence to monitor and predict future cases within regions, helping to inform interventions that can be digitally delivered and tailored to at-risk populations [4]. Social media and mobile apps can also be used to engage and retain patients at risk for and living with HIV, helping to keep them connected to clinical care during times when non-essential in-person visits are discouraged.…”

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Clinical Care, Research, and Telehealth Services in the Era of Social Distancing to Mitigate COVID-19

Young

Schneider

2020

AIDS Behav

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Using Search Engine Data as a Tool to Predict Syphilis

Abstract: We used Google Trends search data from the prior week to predict cases of syphilis in the following weeks for each state. Further research could explore how search data could be integrated into public health monitoring systems.

Cited by 45 publications

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Infodemiological Study Using Google Trends on Coronavirus Epidemic in Wuhan, China

Infodemiological Study Using Google Trends on Coronavirus Epidemic in Wuhan, China

Google Medical Update: Why Is the Search Engine Decreasing Visibility of Health and Medical Information Websites?

Clinical Care, Research, and Telehealth Services in the Era of Social Distancing to Mitigate COVID-19

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