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ArticleJournal of healthcare engineering2023

Development of Health Digital GIS Map for Tuberculosis Disease Distribution Analysis in Sudan.

Mohamed Sidahmed M Siddik, Thowiba E Ahmed, Fatima Rayan Awad Ahmed, Rania A Mokhtar, Elmustafa Sayed Ali, Rashid A Saeed

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Article in Journal of healthcare engineering, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It has been retracted, and should not be counted. Cited by 2 papers.

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Mohamed Sidahmed M SiddikFaculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Al Neelain University, Khartoum, Sudan.ORCID 0000-0002-1199-363X
Thowiba E AhmedComputer Science Department, College of Science and Humanities-Jubail, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Jubail 35811, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-3738-6731
Fatima Rayan Awad AhmedComputer Science Department, College of Computer Engineering and Science, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Al-Kharj 11942, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0001-8642-0791
Rania A MokhtarComputer Engineering Department, College of Computers and Information Technology, Taif University, P.O. Box 11099, Taif 21944, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0001-9221-4214
Elmustafa Sayed AliElectrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Red Sea University, Port-Sudan, Sudan.ORCID 0000-0003-4738-3216
Rashid A SaeedComputer Engineering Department, College of Computers and Information Technology, Taif University, P.O. Box 11099, Taif 21944, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-9872-081X

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Health digital GIS map provides a great solution for medical geographical distribution to efficiently explore diseases and health services. In Sudan, tuberculosis disease is expanding in different areas, which requires a digital GIS map to collect information about the patients and support medical institutions by geographical distribution based on health services, drug supply, and consumption. This paper developed a health digital GIS map to provide a fair geographical distribution of tuberculosis health centers and control the drug supply according to medical reports. The proposed approach extracts the unfair distribution of medicine, as some centers receive medicine but do not receive patients, while others receive a large number of patients but limited amounts of medicine. The analysis results show that there is a defect in some states representing the distribution of tuberculosis centers. In the Northern State, there are 15 tuberculosis centers distributed over all localities, serving about 84 tuberculosis-infected patients only.

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Geographic Information SystemsTuberculosisHumansSudan

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PMCPMC9940970

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