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ArticleJournal of healthcare engineering2021

Socioeconomic Influence on Cardiac Mortality in the South Asian Region: New Perspectives from Grey Modeling and G-TOPSIS.

Shazia Rehman, Erum Rehman, Iftikhar Hussain, Zhang Jianglin

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Article in Journal of healthcare engineering, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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4 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Shazia RehmanDepartment of Dermatology, Shenzhen People's Hospital, The Second Clinical Medical College, Jinan University, The First Affiliated Hospital, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518020, Guangdong, China.ORCID 0000-0003-4563-1124
Erum RehmanSchool of Economics, Shandong University of Finance and Economics, Jinan, China.ORCID 0000-0003-0939-1880
Iftikhar HussainDepartment of Mathematical Sciences, Karakoram International University, Gilgit, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0001-5319-6674
Zhang JianglinDepartment of Dermatology, Shenzhen People's Hospital, The Second Clinical Medical College, Jinan University, The First Affiliated Hospital, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518020, Guangdong, China.ORCID 0000-0003-0434-1729
Jinan University · CNKarakoram International University · PKPakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences · PKShandong University of Finance and Economics · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Measuring the potential socioeconomic factors of cardiac mortality is fundamental to identifying treatments, setting priorities, and effectively allocating resources to minimize disease burden. The study sought to present a methodology that explores the connections between urbanization, population growth, human development index (HDI), access to energy, unemployment, and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality within the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) nations to mitigate the cardiac disease burden. Methods: This investigation uses multiple-criteria decision-making methodologies to analyze data between 2001 and 2017 commencing with a mathematical grey incidence analysis (GIA) methodology to estimate weights and rank nations based on CVD mortality. Then, utilizing the conservative min-max model approach, we sought to determine which country contributes the most to CVD mortality among all South Asian nations. The grey preference by similarity to ideal solution (G-TOPSIS) method is adopted for further optimization by prioritizing the selected factors that have the greatest influence on CVD mortality. Results: The estimated statistic highlights that, among SAARC nations, Pakistan has a significant proportion of the disease burden attributable to cardiac events. In addition, HDI showed a significant contribution in the reduction of CVD mortality, whereas unemployment showed a significant contribution in the rise of CVD mortality among all selected variables. Conclusions: This investigation may facilitate researchers with a multiple-criteria decision-making roadmap to help them enhance the quality of their studies and their understanding of how to use multiple-criteria decision-making techniques to evaluate and prioritize the influencing factors of disease mortality in healthcare research. Further, the study outcomes provide additional practical knowledge for appropriate policy solutions.

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Cardiovascular DiseasesHumansIncidencePakistanSocioeconomic Factors

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