Differential privacy in health research: A scoping review

J Ficek, W Wang, H Chen, G Dagne… - Journal of the American …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Objective Differential privacy is a relatively new method for data privacy that has seen
growing use due its strong protections that rely on added noise. This study assesses the …

[PDF][PDF] A Chronicle of the Application of Differential Privacy to the 2020 Census

VJ Hotz, J Salvo - Harvard Data Science Review, 2022 - assets.pubpub.org
In this article, we chronicle the US Census Bureau's development of the Disclosure
Avoidance System (DAS) for the publicly released products of the 2020 Census of …

Impacts of census differential privacy for small-area disease mapping to monitor health inequities

Y Li, BA Coull, N Krieger, E Peterson, LA Waller… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The US Census Bureau will implement a modernized privacy-preserving disclosure
avoidance system (DAS), which includes application of differential privacy, on publicly …

Breast cancer incidence, hormone receptor status, historical redlining, and current neighborhood characteristics in Massachusetts, 2005-2015

E Wright, PD Waterman, C Testa, JT Chen… - JNCI cancer …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Background Scant research has analyzed contemporary US cancer incidence rates in
relation to historical redlining (ie, 1930s US federally imposed residential segregation) …

The effect of differential privacy on Medicaid participation among racial and ethnic minority groups

CF Kurz, AN König, KMF Emmert‐Fees… - Health Services …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To investigate how county and state‐level estimates of Medicaid enrollment
among the total, non‐Hispanic White, non‐Hispanic Black or African American, and …

[HTML][HTML] Comparing denominator sources for real-time disease incidence modeling: American Community Survey and WorldPop

RC Nethery, T Rushovich, E Peterson, JT Chen… - SSM-Population …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Across the United States public health community in 2020, in the midst of a
pandemic and increased concern regarding racial/ethnic health disparities, there is …

Reconstruction of age distributions from differentially private census data

S Dyrting, A Flaxman, E Sharygin - Population Research and Policy …, 2022 - Springer
The age distribution of a population is important for understanding the demand and
provision of labor and services, and as a denominator for calculating key age-specific rates …

Differential Privacy Protections in 2020 US Decennial Census Data Do Not Impede Measurement of Racial and Ethnic Disparities

J Snoke, A Haas, SC Martino… - Medical Care Research …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Census data are vital to health care research but must also protect respondents'
confidentiality. The 2020 decennial Census employs a new Differential Privacy framework; …

[HTML][HTML] The public health disparities geocoding project 2.0 training manual

C Testa, J Chen, E Hall, D Javadi, J Morgan… - 2019 - phdgp.github.io
For the application of mapping area health outcome rates, georeferenced data are made up
of three components: health outcome counts, population estimates, and the geographic …

Differential Privacy for Regression Modeling in Health: An Evaluation of Algorithms

J Ficek - 2021 - search.proquest.com
Background: There is a need for rigorous and standardized methods of privacy protection for
shared data in the health sciences. Differential privacy is one such method that has gained …