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Forecasting the Regional Demand for Medical Workers in Kazakhstan: The Functional Principal Component Analysis Approach

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  • Berik Koichubekov

    (Department of Informatics and Biostatistics, Karaganda Medical University, Gogol St. 40, Karaganda 100008, Kazakhstan)

  • Bauyrzhan Omarkulov

    (Department of Family Medicine, Karaganda Medical University, Gogol St. 40, Karaganda 100008, Kazakhstan)

  • Nazgul Omarbekova

    (Department of Informatics and Biostatistics, Karaganda Medical University, Gogol St. 40, Karaganda 100008, Kazakhstan)

  • Khamida Abdikadirova

    (Department of Physiology, Karaganda Medical University, Gogol St. 40, Karaganda 100008, Kazakhstan)

  • Azamat Kharin

    (Department of Informatics and Biostatistics, Karaganda Medical University, Gogol St. 40, Karaganda 100008, Kazakhstan)

  • Alisher Amirbek

    (Department of Family Medicine, Karaganda Medical University, Gogol St. 40, Karaganda 100008, Kazakhstan)

Abstract

The distribution of the health workforce affects the availability of health service delivery to the public. In practice, the demographic and geographic maldistribution of the health workforce is a long-standing national crisis. In this study, we present an approach based on Functional Principal Component Analysis (FPCA) of data to identify patterns in the availability of health workers across different regions of Kazakhstan in order to forecast their needs up to 2033. FPCA was applied to the data to reduce dimensionality and capture common patterns across regions. To evaluate the forecasting performance of the model, we employed rolling origin cross-validation with an expanding window. The resulting scores were forecasted one year ahead using Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) methods. LSTM showed higher accuracy compared to ARIMA. The use of the FPCA method allowed us to identify national and regional trends in the dynamics of the number of doctors. We identified regions with different growth rates, highlighting where the most and least intensive growth is taking place. Based on the FPSA, we have predicted the need for doctors in each region in the period up to 2033. Our results show that the FPCA can serve as a significant tool for analyzing the situation relating to human resources in healthcare and be used for an approximate assessment of future needs for medical personnel.

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  • Berik Koichubekov & Bauyrzhan Omarkulov & Nazgul Omarbekova & Khamida Abdikadirova & Azamat Kharin & Alisher Amirbek, 2025. "Forecasting the Regional Demand for Medical Workers in Kazakhstan: The Functional Principal Component Analysis Approach," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 22(7), pages 1-15, June.
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