• DocumentCode
    352920
  • Title

    Identifying health inequalities using artificial neural networks (WHO data)

  • Author

    Zheng Rong ; Harrison, Robert G. ; Lu, Weiping

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys., Heriot-Watt Univ., Edinburgh, UK
  • Volume
    4
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    2000
  • Firstpage
    113
  • Abstract
    We apply artificial neural networks to identify global health inequalities of 191 WHO countries by clustering them into eight groups. From this, we are able to provide key indicators for the health promotion direction for these countries
  • Keywords
    Gaussian distribution; health care; neural nets; pattern clustering; unsupervised learning; WHO countries; artificial neural networks; global health inequalities; health promotion direction; Artificial neural networks; Decision making; Delay; Gaussian distribution; Humans; Neural networks; Physics; Probability; Robustness; Telephony;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Neural Networks, 2000. IJCNN 2000, Proceedings of the IEEE-INNS-ENNS International Joint Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Como
  • ISSN
    1098-7576
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-0619-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IJCNN.2000.860759
  • Filename
    860759