Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Why data is vital in the fight against COVID-19

Epidemiologist and data scientist Dr. Kalinda Griffiths says "data is power" for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities facing the threat of coronavirus.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Video: Who controls pandemic data?

Editor's note: When the Trump administration ordered hospitals to report COVID-19 data to the Department of Health and Human Services rather than the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as they had been doing, it ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

How going from care to prison compounds women's trauma

In the year to June 2021, for every 1,000 women in custody in England and Wales, 3,808 incidents of self-harm were recorded. This represented a shocking increase of 16% on the previous year. Between March 2007 and March 2018, ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Building better coronavirus databases with automatic quality checks

Amid a growing coronavirus crisis, experts in all fields have begun compiling massive datasets to track the impact of the contagion. These datasets capture everything from society-wide virus response information to medical ...

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