Latest AI and machine learning research in public health & policy for healthcare professionals.
BACKGROUND: Depression poses a severe public health challenge for older adults, especially in rural China. In rural settings, the heavy burden of chronic diseases, inadequate medical resources, insufficient family support, and economic stress may lead to the heterogeneous manifestations of depressive symptoms. Most conventional studies adopt depression scores or cut-off standard-based classificati...
BACKGROUND: Egypt's health financing is characterised by persistently high out-of-pocket (OOP) payments exceeding 50% of total health expenditure and a declining government share, threatening financial protection and universal health coverage (UHC). Despite the 2018 Universal Health Insurance Law, whether current trends can achieve Egypt's OOP reduction targets by 2030 remains unknown. We aim to q...
BACKGROUND: In humans, Ebola virus disease (EVD) has a high mortality rate. While viral load is a known prognostic factor, it is not effective in pred...
OBJECTIVES: To identify the biological, behavioural, and socio-demographic determinants of childhood and adolescent obesity and evaluate how their rel...
BACKGROUND: Acute respiratory infections (ARIs) remain a major cause of morbidity and hospitalization in children worldwide. In the post-COVID-19 era,...
In this paper, a distributed robust adaptive confined fault-tolerant optimal control method based on deep neural networks is proposed, aiming to solve...
BACKGROUND: Global infectious disease surveillance requires timely integration of heterogeneous data sources. Existing platforms typically address onl...
AIMS: To validate behavioural subtypes among young and middle-aged hypertensive patients using latent class analysis (LCA) and assess their generaliza...
Conversational artificial intelligence (AI) tools-specifically, general-purpose large language models-are increasingly used by individuals to disclose...
AIMS: Active surveillance (AS) allows selected men with localized prostate cancer to defer curative therapy and reduce treatment morbidity. Conversion...
BACKGROUND: Adverse drug events (ADEs) remain a critical safety issue in pharmaceutical research and development (Pharma R&D), necessitating robust me...
OBJECTIVES: Malaria remains a major public health concern in flood-prone districts where environmental vulnerability and weak health infrastructure ex...
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the potential role of digital health tools in enhancing pandemic preparedness and response. These tools...
OBJECTIVE: To identify multidimensional risk factors associated with poor sleep quality and to develop and temporally validate a machine learning-base...
Despite advances in the management of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC), mortality within 6 months of diagnosis remains a substantial clin...
BACKGROUND: β-thalassemia poses a considerable public health burden in Bangladesh, where a high carrier frequency underlies widespread disease risk. I...
Heavy metals, including lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd), arsenic (As), and mercury (Hg), are pervasive environmental toxicants increasingly recognized as nont...
BACKGROUND: While previous literature has established a link between psychopathology symptom trajectories and psychosocial risk, most studies have not...
AIM: This qualitative study explores how digitalisation primarily through electronic health records and digital documentation systems is experienced b...
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: This review synthesizes recent progress in applications of artificial intelligence to heart failure care, including phenotyping, ri...