Abstract

Patient data or information collected from public health and health care surveys are of great research value. Usually, the data contain sensitive personal information. Doctors, nurses, or researchers in the public health and health care sector do not analyze the available datasets or survey data on their own, and may outsource the tasks to third parties. Even though all identifiers such as names and ID card numbers are removed, there may still be some occasions in which an individual can be re-identified via the demographic or particular information provided in the datasets. Such data privacy issues can become an obstacle in health-related research. Statistical disclosure control (SDC) is a useful technique used to resolve this problem by masking and designing released data based on the original data. Whilst ensuring the released data can satisfy the needs of researchers for data analysis, there is high protection of the original data from disclosure. In this research, we discuss the statistical properties of two SDC methods: the General Additive Data Perturbation (GADP) method and the Gaussian Copula General Additive Data Perturbation (CGADP) method. An empirical study is provided to demonstrate how we can apply these two SDC methods in public health research.

Highlights

  • Patient data or information collected from public health and health care surveys are of great value for safeguarding human physical and mental health, as well as improving medical services and relevant social policies [1]

  • Data related to public health and health care usually contain a lot of personal information

  • We focus on the General Additive Data Perturbation (GADP) method and the Gaussian Copula General Additive Data Perturbation (CGADP) method, which can be applied in a wider range of data related to health care

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Summary

Control Methods to Public Health Research

Y. Lam 2 , Agnes Tiwari 3,4 and Mike K. Received: October 2019; Accepted: 4 November 2019; Published: November 2019

Introduction
Methodology
General Additive Data Perturbation Method
Procedure in applying
Gaussian Copula General Additive Data Perturbation Method
Empirical Study Results
Summary Statistics
Applying the GADP Method
Fitting Method
Conclusions
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