Fareeha Sameen¹, Abdul Momin Kazi², Majida Kazmi^1,*, Munir A Abbasi³, Saad Ahmed Qazi^1,4, Lampros K Stergioulas^3,5

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.1, pp. 375-395, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.019167

Abstract Routine immunization (RI) of children is the most effective and timely public health intervention for decreasing child mortality rates around the globe. Pakistan being a low-and-middle-income-country (LMIC) has one of the highest child mortality rates in the world occurring mainly due to vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs). For improving RI coverage, a critical need is to establish potential RI defaulters at an early stage, so that appropriate interventions can be targeted towards such population who are identified to be at risk of missing on their scheduled vaccine uptakes. In this paper, a machine learning (ML) based predictive model has been proposed to… More >

Sadaf Qazi¹, Muhammad Usman¹, Azhar Mahmood¹, Aaqif Afzaal Abbasi², Muhammad Attique³, Yunyoung Nam^4,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.66, No.1, pp. 589-602, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2020.012507

Abstract Immunization is a noteworthy and proven tool for eliminating lifethreating infectious diseases, child mortality and morbidity. Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) is a nation-wide program in Pakistan to implement immunization activities, however the coverage is quite low despite the accessibility of free vaccination. This study proposes a defaulter prediction model for accurate identification of defaulters. Our proposed framework classifies defaulters at five different stages: defaulter, partially high, partially medium, partially low, and unvaccinated to reinforce targeted interventions by accurately predicting children at high risk of defaulting from the immunization schedule. Different machine learning algorithms are applied on Pakistan Demographic and… More >