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. 2025 Sep 26;13(19):2448. doi: 10.3390/healthcare13192448
AJK Azad Jammu Kashmir
ANC Antenatal Care
ANN Artificial Neural Network
AUROC Area Under the Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve
BHU Basic Health Units
CV Cross-Validation
DT Decision Tree
EBK Empirical Bayesian Kriging
FATA Federally Administrated Tribal Areas
GB Gilgit Baltistan
GGWR Global Geographically Weighted Regression
GPS Global Positioning System
GWR Geographically Weighted Regression
ICT Islamabad Capital Territory
KNN k-Nearest Neighbors
KPK Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
LGWR Local Geographically Weighted Regression
LR Logistic Regression
ML Machine Learning
NB Naïve Bayes
NHV National Health Vision
NIPS National Institute of Population Studies
OLS Ordinary Least Square
PDHS Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey
PHC Primary Health Care
PSU Primary Sampling Unit
RF Random Forest
RHC Rural Health Centers
SBA Skilled Birth Attendants
SDG Sustainable Development Goals
SMOTE Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique
SVM Support Vector Machine
THQ Tehsil Headquarter Hospitals
UHC Universal Health Coverage
USA United States of America
USAID United Nations International Children
UTM Universal Transverse Mercator
VIF Variance Inflammation Factor
WHO World Health Organization