Linda Rothman, Teresa To, Ron Buliung, Colin Macarthur, Andrew Howard
Influence of social and built environment features on children walking to school: an observational study
Preventive medicine
tuberculosis principal public health issue reducing controlling tuberculosis result expected success despite implementing effective preventive therapeutic programs one reasons delay definitive diagnosis therefore creating diagnostic aid system tuberculosis screening help early diagnosis disease research aims use machine learning techniques identify economic social environmental factors affecting tuberculosis casecontrol study included 80 individuals tb 172 participants controls januaryoctober 2021 information collected thirtysix health centers ahvaz southwest iran five different machine learning approaches used identify factors associated tb including bmi sex age marital status education employment status size family monthly income cigarette smoking hookah smoking history chronic illness history imprisonment history hospital admission firstclass family secondclass family thirdclass family friend coworker neighbor market store hospital health center workplace restaurant park mosque basij base hairdressers school data analyzed using statistical programming r software version 411 according calculated evaluation criteria accuracy level 5 svm rf lssvm knn nb models 099 072 097099 095 respectively except rf models highest accuracy among 39 investigated variables 16 factors including firstclass family 2083 friend 1701 health center 4167 hospital 2474 store 1849 market 1432 workplace 946 history hospital admission 5182 bmi 4375 sex 4036 age 2283 educational status 6059 employment status 4358 monthly income 6380 addiction 4410 history imprisonment 3819 highest importance tuberculosis obtained results demonstrated machinelearning techniques effective identifying economic social environmental factors associated tuberculosis identifying different factors plays significant role preventing performing appropriate timely interventions control disease