AIMC Topic: Africa South of the Sahara

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Moving beyond the noise: geospatial modelling of urban sound environments in a sub-Saharan African city.

Scientific reports Jul 1, 2025
Cities encompass a mixture of artificial, human, animal, and nature-based sounds, which through long and short-term exposures, can impact on physical and mental health. Yet, most epidemiological research has focused on only transportation noise, leav...
Humans Sound Africa South of the Sahara Ghana Noise, Transportation Cities Models, Theoretical Noise
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Predicting breast self-examination awareness in Sub-Saharan Africa using machine learning.

Scientific reports Jun 4, 2025
Breast self-examination is a very cost-reducing approach that significantly decreases the cost burdens associated with medical equipment, fees of healthcare practitioners, transportation to health facilities, and other indirect costs. Furthermore, it...
Humans Machine Learning Africa South of the Sahara Breast Self-Examination Breast Neoplasms Middle Aged Adolescent Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice Female Young Adult Adult
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Spatiotemporal patterns and climate-induced macroeconomic burden of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa.

BMC public health May 29, 2025
BACKGROUND: The global malaria burden is characterized by economic, geographical, and climatic disparities, especially in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Moreover, meteorological factors have become increasingly important to understand the malaria burden i...
Africa South of the Sahara Climate Change Cost of Illness Bayes Theorem Malaria Weather Humans Spatio-Temporal Analysis Incidence Machine Learning Geographic Information Systems
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Random forest algorithm for predicting tobacco use and identifying determinants among pregnant women in 26 sub-Saharan African countries: a 2024 analysis.

BMC public health Apr 23, 2025
INTRODUCTION: Tobacco use during pregnancy is a significant public health concern, associated with adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes. Despite its critical importance, comprehensive data on tobacco use among pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa i...
Female Pregnant People Young Adult Adult Machine Learning Algorithms Pregnancy Africa South of the Sahara Tobacco Use Adolescent Health Surveys Random Forest Humans
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Application of the random forest algorithm to predict skilled birth attendance and identify determinants among reproductive-age women in 27 Sub-Saharan African countries; machine learning analysis.

BMC public health Mar 6, 2025
INTRODUCTION: Maternal mortality refers to a mother's death owing to complications arising from childbirth or pregnancy. This issue is a forefront public health challenge around the globe which is pronounced in low- and middle-income countries, parti...
Adult Adolescent Random Forest Maternal Mortality Africa South of the Sahara Midwifery Algorithms Pregnancy Female Young Adult Humans Machine Learning
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Optimizing stroke prediction using gated recurrent unit and feature selection in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Clinical neurology and neurosurgery Jan 27, 2025
BACKGROUND: Stroke remains a leading cause of death and disability worldwide, with African populations bearing a disproportionately high burden due to limited healthcare infrastructure. Early prediction and intervention are critical to reducing strok...
Humans Neural Networks, Computer Middle Aged Aged Machine Learning Stroke Africa South of the Sahara Male Female
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Predicting home delivery and identifying its determinants among women aged 15-49 years in sub-Saharan African countries using a Demographic and Health Surveys 2016-2023: a machine learning algorithm.

BMC public health Jan 24, 2025
BACKGROUND: Birth-related mortality is significantly increased by home births without skilled medical assistance during delivery, presenting a major risk to the public's health. The objective of this study is to predict home delivery and identify the...
Home Childbirth Female Young Adult Adult Health Surveys Humans Africa South of the Sahara Machine Learning Middle Aged Algorithms Adolescent Pregnancy
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Machine learning approach and geospatial analysis to determine HIV infection, awareness status, and transmission knowledge among adults in Sub-Saharan Africa.

BMC research notes Dec 23, 2024
BACKGROUND: HIV/AIDS remains a major public health challenge, in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). In 2020, 16% of people living with HIV did not know their HIV status in SSA. Understanding the geospatial distribution of HIV infection, awareness status, and ...
Awareness HIV Infections Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice Africa South of the Sahara Spatial Analysis Middle Aged Prevalence Adolescent Female Adult Humans Young Adult Machine Learning Male
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Designing AI for mental health diagnosis: challenges from sub-Saharan African value-laden judgements on mental health disorders.

Journal of medical ethics Aug 21, 2024
Recently clinicians have become more reliant on technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) for effective and accurate diagnosis and prognosis of diseases, especially mental health disorders. These remarks, however, ap...
Humans Machine Learning Judgment Mental Health Mental Disorders Artificial Intelligence Africa South of the Sahara
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Predicting adverse birth outcome among childbearing women in Sub-Saharan Africa: employing innovative machine learning techniques.

BMC public health Jul 29, 2024
BACKGROUND: Adverse birth outcomes, including preterm birth, low birth weight, and stillbirth, remain a major global health challenge, particularly in developing regions. Understanding the possible risk factors is crucial for designing effective inte...
Stillbirth Risk Factors Female Adolescent Africa South of the Sahara Young Adult Infant, Newborn Humans Pregnancy Outcome Adult Premature Birth Infant, Low Birth Weight Machine Learning Pregnancy
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