Data analysis of access to healthcare practitioners' worldwide can give insights into a vast realm of issues. Addiction is a tough problem which requires the presence of healthcare professionals specializing explicitly in the domain of addiction disorders.
The impact of access to healthcare practitioners treating addiction can have influence on socio-economic factors. Conclusions in this article are based on analysis conducted with two data sources from WHO (World Health Organization) and ACLED (The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project). An effort is made to establish if there is a direct link between political violence, as well as political violent demonstrations, and the absence or decreased availability of healthcare professionals treating addictions.
However, analysis of the data reveals that political violence cannot be predicted based on the presence of healthcare practitioners treating addictions. This implies that most likely addictions' treatment cannot be associated with political unrest.
Interestingly enough, at a glance, correlation analysis proves that there is somewhat inverse relationship between political violence and the presence of addiction medical specialists and counsellors. This implies that as the number of practitioners increases, the number of violent incidents decreases. Nevertheless, correlation does not mean causation and further analysis is required to prove a causal (cause-and-effect) relationship between the two domains.
Moreover, regional patterns of political violence differ significantly across the 6 main regions in the data:
Eastern Mediterranean
Europe
Africa
Americas
South-East Asia
Western Pacific
Political violence is not common for states in the following regions - Europe and the Western Pacific. The highest percentages of violent political events occur in the Middle East and Africa:
This indicates that analysis should be conducted on a regional level to derive more precise insights.
However, machine learning models, such as random forest and neural networks, confirm that political violence is not directly associated with the presence of healthcare practitioners treating addictions in all 6 regions disregarding of the differences in level of violence. Hence, there is no apparent link between efforts in this area in healthcare and the increase or diminishment of political unrest.
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