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Area of Science:

  • Public Health
  • Epidemiology
  • Data Science

Background:

  • Estimating disease prevalence at a sub-city neighborhood scale is crucial for targeted interventions.
  • Challenges include the high cost of localized data collection and sparse, unrepresentative signals.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To utilize alternative data sources for estimating localized respiratory illness prevalence.
  • To identify neighborhood-scale prevalence of asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in the United States.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized search engine query data for symptoms, medications, and disease information.
  • Constructed features from search data to estimate illness rates across over 23,000 census tracts.
  • Incorporated additional data sources like census and land cover data.

Main Results:

  • Search data alone correlated with CDC estimates at 0.69–0.76, improving to 0.84 with model enhancements.
  • Models integrating search data with census and land cover data achieved high correlations: 0.91 for asthma and 0.88 for COPD.

Conclusions:

  • Search query data is a valuable, less sparse alternative for estimating localized disease prevalence.
  • Combining search data with other sources significantly enhances the accuracy of respiratory illness prevalence estimation.