Insight the data: Wikipedia's researches and real cases of arboviruses in Italy.
Public Health
; 192: 21-29, 2021 Mar.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVES:
The primary aim of this study was to evaluate the temporal correlation between Wikitrends and conventional surveillance data generated for Chikungunya, Dengue, Zika, and West Nile Virus infection reported by bulletin of Italian National Institute of Health (Istituto Superiore di Sanità in italian, ISS). STUDYDESIGN:
A cross-sectional study design was used.METHODS:
The reported cases of Dengue and Chikungunya were selected from July 2015 to December 2019. For West Nile Virus, the bulletins are issued in the period June-November (6 months) of the years 2015-2019, and for Zika virus, the data reported in the ISS bulletin start from January 2016. From Wikipedia Trends, we extracted the number of monthly views by users from the July 2015 to December 2019 of the pages Chikungunya, Dengue, Zika virus, and West Nile Virus.RESULTS:
A correlation was observed between the bulletin of ISS and Wikipedia Wikitrends, the correlation was strong for Chikungunya and West Nile Virus (r = 0.9605; r = 0.9556, respectively), and highly statistically significant with P-values <0.001. The correlation was moderate for Dengue and Zika virus (r = 0.6053; r = 0.5888, respectively), but highly statistically significant with P-values <0.001.CONCLUSIONS:
Classical surveillance system should be integrated with the tools of digital epidemiology that have potential role in public health for the dynamic information and provide near real-time indicators of the spread of infectious disease.Palavras-chave
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Arbovírus
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Febre do Nilo Ocidental
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Internet
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Dengue
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Febre de Chikungunya
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Infecção por Zika virus
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Culicidae
Tipo de estudo:
Evaluation_studies
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Observational_studies
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Prevalence_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
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Screening_studies
Limite:
Animals
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Humans
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Male
País/Região como assunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Public Health
Ano de publicação:
2021
Tipo de documento:
Article