Background Undernutrition is the main cause of child death in developing countries. This
paper aimed to explore the efficacy of machine learning (ML) approaches in predicting …

Malnutrition is the leading causes of infant mortality among the developing countries
including India. This study designs a prediction model for malnutrition based on machine …

Purpose Health improves the proficiency and output generated by individuals. It also raises
physical as well as mental abilities, which are required for the growth and advancement of …

Abstract Government of India introduced National Rural Health Mission in 2005—now
transformed into National Health Mission (NHM), to bring about architectural reforms in …

This article investigates the relative convergence of infant mortality rate (IMR) across the 15
major Indian states for the period 1987–2020. To test this hypothesis, this study applies …

The study aims to understand the major determinants of infant mortality in infant mortality-
prone annual health survey states of India. The study has considered district level infant …

Reducing the mortality rate and increasing health awareness is one of the aims of the
planners of development and decision makers. For the policies to be made in the correct …

Good nutrition is an essential component of life. Undernutrition is the root cause of death of
over 3.5 million children under the age of five in India. To address this issue of malnutrition …

Though research on poverty is numerous, it is in recent times that data scientists have taken
interest in understanding the phenomena using various nonconventional methods. The …

Extensive research on infant mortality (IM) exists in developing countries; however, most of
the methods applied thus far relied on conventional regression analyses with limited …