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KMID : 1156220140400030171
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Journal of Environmental Health Sciences
2014 Volume.40 No. 3 p.171 ~ p.177
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Review of Environmental Health Research through Crowdsourcing
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Lee Bo-Ram
Lee Ki-Young
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Abstract
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Background: The development of technology can be beneficial for the life and health of human society. Crowdsourcing refers to drawing upon a large pool of individuals in order to seek services, ideas, or other contributions. With the development of information communication technology, crowdsourcing is able to provide powerful results in environmental health research.
Methods: We searched ’crowdsourcing’ and ’citizen science’ for keywords related to the environmental health field and only selected journal articles and conference proceedings material, such as research reports and WHO reports.
Results: This paper reviewed environmental health research using crowdsourcing. Examples of such research based on crowdsourcing included practices in environmental disasters, noise monitoring, global positioning system (GPS) technology, smart phones, attached portable devices and information delivery by web. Crowdsourcing methods can provide notably distinct approaches for future environmental health research. However, it is also important to protect personal information whenever crowdsourcing is applied to data generation and information dissemination.
Conclusion: We expect that this review may provide useful information for the development of new environmental health research methods using crowdsourcing and citizen science.
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KEYWORD
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Citizen science, Crowdsourcing, Environmental health, mHealth, Smart phone
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