Abstract: The increasing of applying big data analytics included in various fields in our lives such as economics, healthcare, learning, finance and marketing. Applying big data analytics in public health services has a special manner for collecting, handling, analyzing and using these heterogeneous and complex data in developing countries. In health sector, there are huge amount of complex data from different resources either these data automated or un-automated in developing countries. There is a need to new technologies to use these heterogeneous and complex in healthy living and life style. In developing countries there are more detailed and scattered data which are increasing the complexity of analyzing and using these data.
The applying of big data analytics in public health can benefit specially in developing countries for following up chronic diseases, predicting risk factors for some diseases like cancer, caring and supporting patients, preventing infectious diseases and doing researches. This paper shows the uses and opportunities of applying big data analytics in public health and exploits the new trends and technologies of using big data analytics and big data technologies such as Hadoop distributed file system, map reduce, streaming data and Internet of things in public health. Applying big data analytics Egypt will reflect on the quality and the speed of public health services in all sectors in health ministry.
Keywords: Big Data Analytics- Public Health- HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System)- Map Reduce-IoT (Internet of things).
Title: Applying Big Data Analytics to Improve Public Health Services in Egypt
Author: Christina Albert Rayed
International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology Research
ISSN 2348-1196 (print), ISSN 2348-120X (online)
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