GLOWH-kb - A Curated, Web-based Catalog of Published Data on the Impact of Environment on Human Health
Presentation Time: 09:45 AM - 10:00 AM
Abstract Keywords: Environmental Health and Climate Informatics, Knowledge Representation and Information Modeling, Information Retrieval, Informatics Implementation
Primary Track: Applications
Modeling the risk of climate change on human health involves complex and dynamic interactions. These include shifting patterns of weather and fluctuating environmental pollutants against a backdrop of socio-economic conditions, population demographics, advances in medicine, and other factors. It is vital to understand the interplay between the environment, human health and other health determinants with changing space and time. That is, mere knowledge of the impact on a specific demographic in a single location is not enough. It is important to supplement that information with data showing the same variables could give a different health outcome on another population demographic in a different geographic location. The objective of this paper is to describe the design, implementation, and utility of a unique application GLOWH-kb (GLObal knoWledgebase to catalog the impact of environmental exposure on human Health). The development of GLOWH-kb encompasses : 1) data extraction and curation from identified publications; 2) design and implementation of the backend database; and 3) a user-friendly web-based interface. Given the fact that different diseases are associated with distinct air pollution parameters and exhibit diverse patterns of association, as a case study we focused on Asthma paired with air pollution parameters PM2.5, PM10, NO2, SO2, CO and Ozone separately and retrieved publications if the population sample set was from emergency department visits or hospital admission counts. GLOWH-kb offers map, graph and tabular views of the data. These visual representations enable easy comparison of studies, allowing researchers to identify patterns, trends, and potential correlations.
Speaker(s):
Haseena Rajeevan, PhD
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, Yale University
Presentation Time: 09:45 AM - 10:00 AM
Abstract Keywords: Environmental Health and Climate Informatics, Knowledge Representation and Information Modeling, Information Retrieval, Informatics Implementation
Primary Track: Applications
Modeling the risk of climate change on human health involves complex and dynamic interactions. These include shifting patterns of weather and fluctuating environmental pollutants against a backdrop of socio-economic conditions, population demographics, advances in medicine, and other factors. It is vital to understand the interplay between the environment, human health and other health determinants with changing space and time. That is, mere knowledge of the impact on a specific demographic in a single location is not enough. It is important to supplement that information with data showing the same variables could give a different health outcome on another population demographic in a different geographic location. The objective of this paper is to describe the design, implementation, and utility of a unique application GLOWH-kb (GLObal knoWledgebase to catalog the impact of environmental exposure on human Health). The development of GLOWH-kb encompasses : 1) data extraction and curation from identified publications; 2) design and implementation of the backend database; and 3) a user-friendly web-based interface. Given the fact that different diseases are associated with distinct air pollution parameters and exhibit diverse patterns of association, as a case study we focused on Asthma paired with air pollution parameters PM2.5, PM10, NO2, SO2, CO and Ozone separately and retrieved publications if the population sample set was from emergency department visits or hospital admission counts. GLOWH-kb offers map, graph and tabular views of the data. These visual representations enable easy comparison of studies, allowing researchers to identify patterns, trends, and potential correlations.
Speaker(s):
Haseena Rajeevan, PhD
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, Yale University
GLOWH-kb - A Curated, Web-based Catalog of Published Data on the Impact of Environment on Human Health
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