Winning the Polio War in Pakistan

Polio is one of the most important issues which have caught the global attention. It has been eradicated globally except Pakistan and Afghanistan. Its quiet alarming, where whole world is polio free, still polio cases are emerging from Pakistan. The major motivation behind this research is to study and analyze the past cases (trend analysis) and to predict the number of future cases and obstacles hindering Pakistan to eliminate polio. The areas with peak level of influx could be prioritized for effective tracking, planning and monitoring of vaccination activities and better utilization of human resources for targeted and controlled interventions. It shall provide better management and resource allocation decisions for speedy eradication of this epidemic syndrome. Polio cases are displayed on Google Maps for localization and clustering, and trend analysis is performed for future prediction using linear regression.

@article{Khan2019,
  title     = {Winning the Polio War in Pakistan},
  journal   = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
  volume    = {10},
  number    = {12},
  year      = {2019},
  publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
  author    = {Toorab Khan and Waheed Noor and Junaid Babar and Maheen Bakhtyar},
  doi       = {10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0101219},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0101219}
}