Sustainable Healthcare Systems in Africa Technologies, Practices, and Management

Preface
About the Editors
List of Contributors

PART 1. Mobile Health (mHealth) Solutions and Telemedicine Platforms in Africa

1. Mobile Health (mHealth) Solutions and Telemedicine Platforms in Africa
Wasswa Shafik, Adel Ben Youssef, Chithirai Pon Selvan, and Pushan Kumar Dutta

2. Econometric Analysis of Efficiency among Public Health Center III Facilities in Kigezi Subregion Uganda
Innocent Mugisha, Kenneth Tindimwebwa, Lillian Namubiru, Khder Alakkari, Bushra Ali, Maad M. Mijwil, and Mostafa Abotaleb

3. Transforming Patient-Centered Healthcare Using Smart and Connected Internet of Things for Intelligent Medical Operations
Wasswa Shafik, Ali Tufail, Rosyzie Anna Awg Haji Mohd Apong, and Chandratilak De Silva Liyanage

4. Reimagining Healthcare: The South African PPP Revolution
Monsoon Sarkar, Abhinav Singhal, and C. Glory

5. Transforming AI in African Healthcare: Enhancing Health Outcomes
Rahul Joshi, Suman Kumari, and Krishna Pandey

6. Flying to Wellness: How Drones Are Bridging Healthcare Gaps Across Africa
Rahul Joshi, Suman Kumari, Krishna Pandey, and Ankita Bharti

PART 2. Sustainable Practices in Healthcare Management

7. Accounting for Technical Efficiency Variations among Public Health Center III Facilities in Kigezi Subregion Uganda: A Tobit Regression Model
Kenneth Tindimwebwa, Innocent Mugisha, Lillian Namubiru, Maad M. Mijwil, Mostafa Abotaleb, and Pushan Kumar Dutta

8. Regulatory Framework for Digital Health, Data Privacy, and Cybersecurity
Rahul Vadisetty and Anand Polamarasetti

9. AI/ ML-Driven Clinical Decision Support and Medical Imagining
Rahul Vadisetty and Anand Polamarasetti

10. Mobile Health Solutions and Telemedicine Platforms
R. Kanthavel, R. Adline Freeda, and R. Dhaya

11. The Intersection of Digital Health and Data Privacy: A Legal Perspective on Regulatory Frameworks
Shashwata Sahu, Navonita Mallick, and Kyvalya Garikapati

12. Transforming African Healthcare with AI- Driven Data Analytics and Predictive Medicine for Sustainable and Inclusive Health Outcomes
Roshni Prasad, Sanskruti Samal, Anjali Tripathy, Rishikesh Das, Subhankar Roy, Debrupendu Gupta, Smriti Shaw, Rituraj Das, Smriti Rai, and Abhishek Mukhopadhyay

13. Water and Waste Management: Best Practices for Hospitals
Amit Kumar Jain

PART 3. Healthcare Policy, Governance, and Social Change

14. AI-Powered Drones in Emergency Healthcare: A Framework for Medical Deliveries to Remote Regions
Indra Kishor, Udit Mamodiya, Deepti Dwivedi, Priya Goyal, and Sachin Suthar

15. Leveraging AI and Machine Learning for Healthcare Accessibility: Enhancing Clinical Decision Support Systems in Rural Africa
Vishal Jain, Archan Mitra, R. Ravi Kumar, and Aishwarya Ravikumar

16. Climate Change Impacts on Disease Burden and Healthcare Vulnerability
Wasswa Shafik, Ali Tufail, Chandratilak De Silva Liyanage, and Rosyzie Anna Awg Haji Mohd Apong

17. Gender Equality in Healthcare Access and Leadership Roles
Wasswa Shafik and Abdul Male Ssentumbwe

18. Governance and Policy Frameworks in African Healthcare
Wasswa Shafik and Haji Gul

PART 4. The Road to Sustainable Healthcare and Social Inclusion

19. Achieving Sustainable Healthcare Systems in Africa
Wasswa Shafik and Haji Gul

20. Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) for Remote Patient Monitoring
Renjth V. Ravi and Pushan Kumar Dutta

21. A Real-Time Adaptive System for Enhancing Hand Movement Rehabilitation in Stroke Patients Based on Real-Time Brain Signal Processing and Virtual Reality
Indra Kishor and Udit Mamodiya

22. Blockchain-Enabled Hashing Architecture to Ensure Medical Data Integrity in Lung Cancer Patients
Bannishikha Banerjee and Indraneel Mukhopadhyay

23. The Impact of Sustainability Initiatives on the Modern Workforce in Organization Growth
Megha Ojha, Vinay Kandpal, Archana Singh, and Deepak Juyal

24. Hospital Sustainability in Africa: Innovations in Water and Waste Management
Rahul Srova and Archana Shahi

Index

Biography

Wasswa Shafik (Senior Member, IEEE) is the Head of the Dig Connectivity Research Laboratory (DCRLab), Kampala, Uganda, and a Research Associate at the School of Digital Science, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Darussalam. He pursued his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the School of Digital Science, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei Darussalam. An MS in IT Engineering with Communication and Computer Networks Option, at Yazd University, Yazd, Islamic Republic of Iran, and his BS in IT Engineering with a minor in Mathematics at Ndejje University, Uganda. He has published multiple books, articles and IEEE papers in numerous IEEE International, non-IEEE conferences, and international journals and has been a reviewer/editorial support for several international journals. Currently, he serves as department support for Mathematics for Data Science, Physical Computing, Advanced Topics in Computing, Advanced Algorithms, and System Performance and Evaluation. As a department fellow, he served as a researcher associate at the Intelligent Network Laboratory in Iran. Dr. Shafik has also served as a Community Data Officer at the Programme for Accessible Health, Communication and Education, a Research Associate and Data Manager at Population Services International, a Data Manager, and Research Assistant at the Socio-Economic Data Center, a Research Lead at TechnoServe, and Chief Executive Officer at Asmaah Charity Organisation. His research focuses on developing principled, computationally and statistically efficient models and algorithms for various machine learning problems in Smart Agriculture, Healthcare Informatics, Computer Vision/Image Processing, Applied Artificial Intelligence, and Sustainable Computing.

Adel Ben Youssef is a professor of economics (HDR) at the Université Côte d'Azur, Nice, France, and a member of the CNRS research laboratory. He is an international expert in digital transition and ecological transition and has participated in the animation of a hundred workshops and published more than 100 academic articles in international journals. Dr. Youssef is also a researcher at the Economic Research Forum in Cairo and the Global Labor Organization (Bonn).

Chithirai Pon Selvan is the Director of Research & Head of the School of Science and Engineering, Curtin University Dubai, United Arab Emirates. He has extensive experience in teaching engineering students and has worked in academia for over twenty-five years. He has published/presented more than 150 research articles in journals and conferences and has been invited and honored as a keynote speaker, session chair, resource person, and technical committee member of various conferences held in UAE, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Germany, Italy, Australia, Qatar, and the UK. He is a well-known researcher in the field of Abrasive Waterjet Cutting Technology and has evaluated several PhD theses in Mechanical Engineering from various universities. He is the approved supervisor of many universities including Curtin University, Australia to guide PhD scholars. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), UK, and has received several prestigious awards. His research interests are in the areas of machine design, optimization techniques, manufacturing practices, renewable energy, and engineering sustainable development.

Pushan Kumar Dutta is an Assistant Professor at Amity University Kolkata, West Bengal, India, with over 12 years of experience spanning academia and industry. He earned his Ph.D. from Jadavpur University, India, and a post-doctorate from the Erasmus Mundus Leaders program. Dr. Dutta has a diverse research portfolio in interdisciplinary topics such as data mining, AI, edge computing, federated learning, predictive analytics, earthquake studies, sustainability, industry 5.0, machine ethics, and intelligent systems.  He has edited over 20 books with leading publishers and published 68+ articles in journals and conferences. Additionally, he has extensive expertise and passion for research and teaching and is an award-winning researcher, having received honors such as the Young Faculty in Engineering Award in 2018.