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Analysis of Unmet Healthcare Needs in Ireland: A Data Mining Approach
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Abstract This study explores data form the Survey of Income and Living Condition (SILC), related to factors contributing to unmet healthcare needs in Ireland. We analysed predisposing, enabling and needs factors by building predictive models and measured the predictor importance by sensitivity analysis. Res... view more
This study explores data form the Survey of Income and Living Condition (SILC), related to factors contributing to unmet healthcare needs in Ireland. We analysed predisposing, enabling and needs factors by building predictive models and measured the predictor importance by sensitivity analysis. Results show that critical factors for meeting the healthcare needs include financial status, degree of urbanization, indicatorsof social exclusion and deprivations, and self-perceived general health condition. Identifying and quantifying those factors form raw data may facilitate decision making in the domain.... view less
Keywords
Ireland; health care; classification; regression; financial situation; urbanization; deprivation; exclusion; health status
Classification
Medical Sociology
Free Keywords
EU-SILC 2018; unmet healthcare; data mining; logistic regression
Document language
English
Publication Year
2021
Page/Pages
p. 81-86
Journal
International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology, 10 (2021) 3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.35940/ijeat.C2232.0210321
ISSN
2249-8958
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0