Book contents
- Global Health
- Global Health
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Section 1 Global Health: Definitions and Descriptions
- Section 2 Global Health Ethics, Responsibilities, and Justice: Some Central Issues
- Section 3 Analyzing Some Reasons for Poor Health and Responsibilities to Address Them
- Section 4 Environmental/Ecological Considerations and Planetary Health
- Section 5 The Importance of Including Cross-Cultural Perspectives and the Need for Dialogue
- Section 6 Shaping the Future
- Chapter 29 Global Health Research
- Chapter 30 Justice and Research in Developing Countries
- Chapter 31 The Health Impact Fund
- Chapter 32 Evaluating Global Health Impact and Increasing Access to Essential Medicines
- Chapter 33 Philanthrocapitalism and Global Health
- Chapter 34 Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for Global Health
- Chapter 35 Global Health Governance for Developing Sustainability
- Chapter 36 Teaching Global Health Ethics
- Chapter 37 Teaching Global Health Ethics
- Chapter 38 Toward a New Common Sense
- Index
- References
Chapter 34 - Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for Global Health
Ethical Challenges and Opportunities
from Section 6 - Shaping the Future
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 February 2021
- Global Health
- Global Health
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Section 1 Global Health: Definitions and Descriptions
- Section 2 Global Health Ethics, Responsibilities, and Justice: Some Central Issues
- Section 3 Analyzing Some Reasons for Poor Health and Responsibilities to Address Them
- Section 4 Environmental/Ecological Considerations and Planetary Health
- Section 5 The Importance of Including Cross-Cultural Perspectives and the Need for Dialogue
- Section 6 Shaping the Future
- Chapter 29 Global Health Research
- Chapter 30 Justice and Research in Developing Countries
- Chapter 31 The Health Impact Fund
- Chapter 32 Evaluating Global Health Impact and Increasing Access to Essential Medicines
- Chapter 33 Philanthrocapitalism and Global Health
- Chapter 34 Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for Global Health
- Chapter 35 Global Health Governance for Developing Sustainability
- Chapter 36 Teaching Global Health Ethics
- Chapter 37 Teaching Global Health Ethics
- Chapter 38 Toward a New Common Sense
- Index
- References
Summary
The development of new information technologies has accelerated the pace with which data are collected, stored, and processed. As a result, the term big data came to life describing large and disparate data collections. Data at large scale provided a new, important resource on which powerful computational technologies and new analytical capabilities can be deployed to glean various kinds of information. More recently, a new repertoire of methods labeled artificial intelligence (AI) has added speed and accuracy in pattern identification and the generation of other inferences from such data. AI-based applications have been accompanied by enormous enthusiasm about the possibilities to solve a variety of problems in all aspects of life. However, most AI-based applications are currently narrow in scope: they are adopted to carry out specific tasks and to solve limited and predetermined problems (Mesko, 2017).
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- Global HealthEthical Challenges, pp. 429 - 439Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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