<unk>  (or<unk><unk>  surveillance or sewage chemical-information mining) analyzes<unk>  to determine the consumption of, or exposure to, chemicals or pathogens in a population. This is achieved by measuring chemical or biomarkers in<unk>  generated by the people contributing to a sewage treatment plant catchment.<unk>  has been used to estimate illicit drug use in communities or populations, but can be used to measure the consumption of alcohol, caffeine, various pharmaceuticals and other compounds.<unk>  has also been adapted to measure the load of pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2 in a community. It differs from traditional drug testing, urine or stool testing in that results are population-level rather than individual level.<unk>  is an interdisciplinary endeavour that draws on input from specialists such as<unk>  treatment plant operators, analytical chemists and epidemiologists.
Wastewater-based epidemiology
Computational epidemiology
Spatial epidemiology
Epidemiology in Country Practice
Economic epidemiology
Real world data
Analysis of clinical trials
Diagnosis-related group