Rural Healthcare Delivery in Sub-Saharan Africa

Фарук, Насир; Surajudeen-Bakinde, N. T.; Abdulkarim, Abubakar; Oloyede, Abdulkarim A.; Olawoyin, Lukman A.; Bello, Olayiwola W.; Popoola, Segun I.; Edoh, Thierry Oscar

doi:10.4018/ijhisi.2020070101

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“…Health care facilities in rural regions of Sub-Saharan Africa are typically in a poor state, which may contribute to the low utilization of maternal healthcare services [ 38 ]. It is challenging to find competent healthcare personnel in rural regions, even when the facilities are accessible.…”

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Decomposing the urban–rural inequalities in the utilisation of maternal health care services: evidence from 27 selected countries in Sub-Saharan Africa

2021

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Background There has been a substantial improvement in reducing maternal mortality in the Sub-Saharan African region. The vast rural-urban gap in maternal health outcomes, however, is obscured by this average achievement. This study attempts to measure the contribution of identified risk factors to describe the average rural-urban difference in the use of antenatal care, health facilities for delivery, and health professional assistance at delivery. Method To achieve this objective, we used descriptive analysis and Fairlie non-linear decomposition method to quantify covariates’ contribution in explaining the urban–rural difference in maternal healthcare services utilisation. Result The study’s finding shows much difference between urban and rural areas in the use of maternal healthcare services. Socio-economic factors such as household wealth index, exposure to media, and educational level of women and their husbands/partners contributed the most in explaining the gap between urban and rural areas in healthcare services utilisation. Conclusions Interventions to bridge the gap between urban and rural areas in maternal healthcare services utilisation in Sub-Saharan Africa should be centred towards socio-economic empowerment. Government can enforce targeted awareness campaigns to encourage women in rural communities in Sub-Sharan Africa to take the opportunity and use the available maternal health care services to be at par with their counterparts in urban areas.

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Decomposing the urban–rural inequalities in the utilisation of maternal health care services: evidence from 27 selected countries in Sub-Saharan Africa

2021

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“…But the existing network embedding methods are only for a specific kind of information networks, such as homogeneous information networks and heterogeneous information networks. To address the above problems, in this paper, we propose a multiple network hybrid embedding for recommendation method, which embeds the nodes of multiple relational networks into the same vector space to get a unified vector representation [29]. So that the embedding vectors of the same kind of nodes contain the features of multiple relationship networks, and the embedding vectors of different types of nodes contain the direct influence relationship, and considering the scalability of the method, the relationship between users and services is divided into two categories, as shown in Figure 1.…”

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Web Service Applications and Consumer Environments Based on ICT-Driven Optimization

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Networking is the use of physical links to connect individual isolated workstations or hosts together to form data links for the purpose of resource sharing and communication. In the field of web service application and consumer environment optimization, it has been shown that the introduction of network embedding methods can effectively alleviate the problems such as data sparsity in the recommendation process. However, existing network embedding methods mostly target a specific structure of network and do not collaborate with multiple relational networks from the root. Therefore, this paper proposes a service recommendation model based on the hybrid embedding of multiple networks and designs a multinetwork hybrid embedding recommendation algorithm. First, the user social relationship network and the user service heterogeneous information network are constructed; then, the embedding vectors of users and services in the same vector space are obtained through multinetwork hybrid embedding learning; finally, the representation vectors of users and services are applied to recommend services to target users. To verify the effectiveness of this paper’s method, a comparative analysis is conducted with a variety of representative service recommendation methods on three publicly available datasets, and the experimental results demonstrate that this paper’s multinetwork hybrid embedding method can effectively collaborate with multirelationship networks to improve service recommendation quality, in terms of recommendation efficiency and accuracy.

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“…This significantly changes the strategy of providing medical care to a developing country. The platforms that used telemedicine were actively studied and implemented in the African region during the recent decade [99][100][101]. For example, a recent study employed a low-cost tablet for electroencephalography (EEG) and epilepsy management in the Republic of Guinea (Western Africa) [100].…”

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The Recent Progress and Applications of Digital Technologies in Healthcare: A Review

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Bukeyeva

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International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications

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Background. The implementation of medical digital technologies can provide better accessibility and flexibility of healthcare for the public. It encompasses the availability of open information on the health, treatment, complications, and recent progress on biomedical research. At present, even in low-income countries, diagnostic and medical services are becoming more accessible and available. However, many issues related to digital health technologies remain unmet, including the reliability, safety, testing, and ethical aspects. Purpose. The aim of the review is to discuss and analyze the recent progress on the application of big data, artificial intelligence, telemedicine, block-chain platforms, smart devices in healthcare, and medical education. Basic Design. The publication search was carried out using Google Scholar, PubMed, Web of Sciences, Medline, Wiley Online Library, and CrossRef databases. The review highlights the applications of artificial intelligence, “big data,” telemedicine and block-chain technologies, and smart devices (internet of things) for solving the real problems in healthcare and medical education. Major Findings. We identified 252 papers related to the digital health area. However, the number of papers discussed in the review was limited to 152 due to the exclusion criteria. The literature search demonstrated that digital health technologies became highly sought due to recent pandemics, including COVID-19. The disastrous dissemination of COVID-19 through all continents triggered the need for fast and effective solutions to localize, manage, and treat the viral infection. In this regard, the use of telemedicine and other e-health technologies might help to lessen the pressure on healthcare systems. Summary. Digital platforms can help optimize diagnosis, consulting, and treatment of patients. However, due to the lack of official regulations and recommendations, the stakeholders, including private and governmental organizations, are facing the problem with adequate validation and approbation of novel digital health technologies. In this regard, proper scientific research is required before a digital product is deployed for the healthcare sector.

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Rural Healthcare Delivery in Sub-Saharan Africa

Cited by 26 publications

References 33 publications

Decomposing the urban–rural inequalities in the utilisation of maternal health care services: evidence from 27 selected countries in Sub-Saharan Africa

Decomposing the urban–rural inequalities in the utilisation of maternal health care services: evidence from 27 selected countries in Sub-Saharan Africa

Web Service Applications and Consumer Environments Based on ICT-Driven Optimization

The Recent Progress and Applications of Digital Technologies in Healthcare: A Review

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