Decision Platform for Pattern Discovery and Causal Effect Estimation in Contraceptive Discontinuation

Decision Platform for Pattern Discovery and Causal Effect Estimation in Contraceptive Discontinuation

Celia Cintas, Ramya Raghavendra, Victor Akinwande, Aisha Walcott-Bryant, Charity Wayua, Komminist Weldemariam

Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Contraceptive use improves the health of women and children in several ways, yet data shows high rates of discontinuation which is not well understood. We introduce an AI-based decision platform capable of analyzing event data to identify patterns of contraceptive uptake that are unique to a subpopulation of interest. These discriminatory patterns provide valuable, interpretable insights to policy-makers. The sequences then serve as a hypothesis for downstream causal analysis to estimate the effect of specific variables on discontinuation outcomes. Our platform presents a way to visualize, stratify, compare, and perform a causal analysis on covariates that determine contraceptive uptake behavior, and yet is general enough to be extended to a variety of applications.
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Machine Learning: general