Browsing Data Science Program by Issue Date
Now showing items 1-19 of 19
-
Sex-Disaggregated Data Matters: Tracking the Impact of COVID-19 on the Health of Women and Men.
(National Library of MedicineSpringerLink, 2022)Sex and gender matter to health outcomes, but despite repeated commitments to sex-disaggregate data in health policies and programmes, a persistent and substantial absence of such data remains especially in lower-income ... -
Adaptations to HIV Services Delivery Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic Restrictions in Kampala, Uganda: A Qualitative Study.
(National Library of MedicinePLOS, 2022)The enforcement of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic restrictions disrupted health services delivery and currently, there is a limited understanding regarding measures employed by health facilities to ensure ... -
A Call for Citizen Science in Pandemic Preparedness and Response: Beyond Data Collection
(National Library of MedicineBMJ Global Health, 2022)The COVID-19 pandemic has underlined the need to partner with the community in pandemic preparedness and response in order to enable trust-building among stakeholders, which is key in pandemic management. Citizen science, ... -
Encouraging Social Innovation for Combating Poverty: Master’s Students’ Gendered Experiences With a Service-Learning Intervention in Kenya and Uganda
(Semantic ScholerResearchGate, 2022)This study aims to understand masters students experiences of service-learning, following their participation in a workshop with local social innovators whose activities had contributed to combating poverty in East Africa ... -
Determinants of Contraceptive Use Among Women 0–23 Months Postpartum in Kitui County, Kenya: A Cross-Sectional Study
(National Library of MedicinePLOS, 2022)The risk of unintended pregnancy is high in the postpartum period, especially during the first year of delivery. Yet, short birth intervals are associated with increased risk of adverse maternal and infant outcomes. In ... -
Factors Associated with Viral Load Suppression Among Orphans and Vulnerable Children and Adolescents Living with HIV in Kenya
(National library of medicineResearchGatePLOS Global public Health, 2023)While tremendous progress has been made on attaining HIV treatment goals (95-95-95), children's viral load suppression remains a challenge particularly among the orphans and vulnerable groups. In Sub Saharan Africa, there ... -
Enabling Data Sharing and Utilization for African Population Health Data Using OHDSI Tools with an OMOP-Common Data Model
(National library of medicineFrontiers, 2023)The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred the use of AI and DS innovations in data collection and aggregation. Extensive data on many aspects of the COVID-19 has been collected and used to optimize public health response to the ... -
The Effect of a Health Extension Program on Improving Water, Sanitation, And Hygiene Practices in Rural Ethiopia
(National library of medicineResearchGateBMC Health Service Research, 2023)To make basic primary health care services accessible, especially to the rural community, the government of Ethiopia launched the Health Extension Program (HEP) in 2004. Most of components of HEP are dedicated to hygiene ... -
Use of A Context-Specific Package to Increase Sputum Smear Monitoring Among People with Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Uganda: A Quality Improvement Study
(National library of medicineResearchGateEurope PMC, 2023)People with bacteriologically confirmed pulmonary tuberculosis (BC-PTB) require sputum smear monitoring (SSM) to ascertain response to anti-TB treatment and cure from TB disease. We aimed to increase SSM at 2, 5 and 6 ... -
Assessing Predictive Performance of Supervised Machine Learning Algorithms for A Diamond Pricing Model
(ResearchGateNational Library of Medicine, 2023)This study conducted a comprehensive analysis of multiple supervised machine learning models, regressors and classifiers, to accurately predict diamond prices. Diamond pricing is a complex task due to the non-linear ... -
Experiences of Mothers and Health Workers with Momcare and Safecare Bundles in Kenya and Tanzania: A Qualitative Evaluation.
(National library of medicine, 2023)Between 2019 and 2022, the digital dividend project (DDP), a technology-based intervention that combined care (MomCare) and quality improvement (SafeCare) bundles to empower mothers to access quality care during pregnancy, ... -
Community Purchases of Antimicrobials During The COVID-19 Pandemic in Uganda: An Increased Risk for Antimicrobial Resistance
(National library of medicineResearchGate, 2023)Self-Medication (SM) involves the utilization of medicines to treat self-recognized symptoms or diseases without consultation and the irrational use of over-the-counter drugs. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the lack of ... -
Effect of Justification of Wife-Beating on Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence Among Men and Women in Uganda
(National library of medicineResearchGate, 2023)In some communities, rationalization of men's controlling attitudes is associated with the justification of gender norms such as wife-beating as a method of correcting spouse behaviour. In this quasi-experimental study, ... -
Impact of Intensive Adherence Counseling on Viral Load Suppression and Mortality Among People Living with HIV in Kampala, Uganda: A Regression Discontinuity Design
(National library of medicineResearchGatePLOS Global public Health, 2023)Intensive adherence counseling (IAC) is recommended for people living with HIV (PLHIV) with viral load (VL) 1,000 copies/ml after 6 months of anti-retroviral therapy (ART). We evaluated the effect of IAC on VL suppression ... -
Food Insecurity and Engagement in Transactional Sex Among Female Secondary Students in Rwanda
(National library of medicineResearchGate, 2023)The relationship between food insecurity and transactional sex is well recognized, but less is known about this relationship among adolescents. We analyzed cross-sectional baseline data from 3,130 female secondary students ... -
Use of Postpartum Intrauterine Contraceptive Devices Among Women in Northern Uganda: A Cross Sectional Study.
(ResearchGateWiley online library, 2023)The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and factors associated with postpartum intrauterine contraceptive device use among postpartum mothers in Lira district, northern Uganda. Methods We designed a cross ... -
Data Law Companion: Enhancing Data Protection Law Compliance in the Digital Age
(Data Science Journal, 2024)The rapid expansion and use of digital data in the era of generative Artificial Intelligence raises significant challenges in legal compliance and ethical data handling. The DataLawCompanion (DLC) emerges as a pivotal tool, ... -
Widening Geographic Range of Rift Valley Fever Disease Clusters Associated With Climate Change in East Africa
(BMJ Global HealthResearchGate, 2024)Recent epidemiology of Rift Valley fever (RVF) disease in Africa suggests growing frequency and expanding geographic range of small disease clusters in regions that previously had not reported the disease. We investigated ... -
INSPIRE Datahub: A Pan-African Integrated Suite of Services for Harmonising Longitudinal Population Health Data Using OHDSI Tools
(Frontiers in Digital Health, 2024)Population health data integration remains a critical challenge in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), hindering the generation of actionable insights to inform policy and decision-making. This paper proposes a ...
