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NLP for Maternal Healthcare: Perspectives and Guiding Principles in the Age of LLMs

Antoniak, Maria, Naik, Aakanksha, Alvarado, Carla S., Wang, Lucy Lu, Chen, Irene Y.

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Ethical frameworks for the use of natural language processing (NLP) are urgently needed to shape how large language models (LLMs) and similar tools are used for healthcare applications. Healthcare faces existing challenges including the balance of power in clinician-patient relationships, systemic health disparities, historical injustices, and economic constraints. Drawing directly from the voices of those most affected, and focusing on a case study of a specific healthcare setting, we propose a set of guiding principles for the use of NLP in maternal healthcare. We led an interactive session centered on an LLM-based chatbot demonstration during a full-day workshop with 39 participants, and additionally surveyed 30 healthcare workers and 30 birthing people about their values, needs, and perceptions of NLP tools in the context of maternal health. We conducted quantitative and qualitative analyses of the survey results and interactive discussions to consolidate our findings into a set of guiding principles. We propose nine principles for ethical use of NLP for maternal healthcare, grouped into three themes: (i) recognizing contextual significance (ii) holistic measurements, and (iii) who/what is valued. For each principle, we describe its underlying rationale and provide practical advice. This set of principles can provide a methodological pattern for other researchers and serve as a resource to practitioners working on maternal health and other healthcare fields to emphasize the importance of technical nuance, historical context, and inclusive design when developing NLP technologies for clinical use.


Estimating Countries with Similar Maternal Mortality Rate using Cluster Analysis and Pairing Countries with Identical MMR

Nandini, S., R, Sanjjushri Varshini

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

In the evolving world, we require more additionally the young era to flourish and evolve into developed land. Most of the population all around the world are unaware of the complications involved in the routine they follow while they are pregnant and how hospital facilities affect maternal health. Maternal Mortality is the death of a pregnant woman due to intricacies correlated to pregnancy, underlying circumstances exacerbated by the pregnancy or management of these situations. It is crucial to consider the Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) in diverse locations and determine which human routines and hospital facilities diminish the Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR). This research aims to examine and discover the countries which are keeping more lavish threats of MMR and countries alike in MMR encountered. Data is examined and collected for various countries, data consists of the earlier years' observation. From the perspective of Machine Learning, Unsupervised Machine Learning is implemented to perform Cluster Analysis. Therefore the pairs of countries with similar MMR as well as the extreme opposite pair concerning the MMR are found.


Protecting maternal health in Rwanda

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The world is facing a maternal health crisis. According to the World Health Organization, approximately 810 women die each day due to preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. Two-thirds of these deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa. In Rwanda, one of the leading causes of maternal mortality is infected Cesarean section wounds. An interdisciplinary team of doctors and researchers from MIT, Harvard University, and Partners in Health (PIH) in Rwanda have proposed a solution to address this problem.


Google AI helping India boost maternal health

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New Delhi, Feb 27, 2021- Researchers from Google Research and IIT Madras have designed an AI technology that could provide an indication of women who are at risk of dropping out from the health information programme. The technology has helped non-profit organisation ARMMAN to personalise interventions and retain women in the health programmes, improving maternal health outcomes. Test results demonstrated that use of AI technology was able to bring down the risk of drop-offs by up to 32 per cent for women at high risk of dropping out, Google has announced. ARMMAN runs mMitra, a free mobile voice call service that sends timely and targeted preventive care information to expectant and new mothers. "Adherence to such public health programs is a big challenge but timely intervention to retain people is beneficial to improve maternal health outcomes," Google said.