DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS: AN EXPLORATORY RESEARCH EXAMINING PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATORS' PERCEPTION OF GLOBAL SENSOR SYSTEMS
Taiwo Ajani · 2014
Decision Support Systems are increasingly having implications and significance for public health, environmental monitoring, socioeconomic and national security. Increasing occurrence of man-made and natural disasters underlie a need for technologies and practices that can assist key decision makers in determining the most probable cause of a problem and facilitate methods to solve such problem most accurately. Public Health practitioners are interested in potential impact of new technologies especially innovations that have significance in informing public health policies. Therefore, it is important to understand issues and concerns that may associate with informationor decision support systems that potentially could impact socioeconomic systems. This study investigates Public Health educators’ perception of global sensor networking, an innovation that has been touted as revolutionary to health and hence socioeconomic security. This is a qualitative research. Results provided in-depth information including issues that are important in Public Health and policy ‐ privacy of information, ethics, information security and sovereignty among others.