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Showing 1 to 20 of 478 for “"low- and middle-income countries"”.
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Economic Costs of Dementia in Low and Middle Income Countries
… the study is to assess the impact of dementia in low and middle income countries (LAMICs) on service and family costs and to assess the impact of<br/>dependency and other factors on costs.<br/>A prevalence-based bottom up cost-of-illness study was carried out using the database of the 10/66 …
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Migration and Health Systems performance in low- and middle- income countries
… (WHO) framed responsiveness, fair financing, and equity as the intrinsic goals of a health system. In line with this framework, we attempted to map existing research on migration and health system performance. A qualitative systematic review was conducted. We followed the processes indicated …
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The economics of tobacco control in low- and middle-income countries
… on Tobacco Control which recommends that countries use, amongst other things, tax increases and advertising bans to reduce tobacco consumption. Furthermore, this is supplemented by various policy documents and technical manuals produced by the World Health Organisation and the World Bank …
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Subnational Estimation of Period Child Mortality in a Low and Middle Income Countries Context
… is an important metric used in quantifying and monitoring the health of a population's children. Moreover, child mortality can be a key indicator of the overall health of a population, and is often used to quantify mortality at other ages. Over the past several decades, there have been huge …
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Safety of Essential Surgery Performed by Non-Physicians in Low and Middle Income Countries
… A lack of surgically trained providers in low and middle income countries (LMICs) is a major contributor to high morbidity and mortality from surgical conditions in these settings. Some countries train non-physician clinicians (NPCs) in surgery to help solve this problem. The World Health …
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Single-Center Experience of Providing Congenital Heart Surgery to Low- and Middle-Income Countries
… heart disease (CHD) patients from over 50 low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) who received care at Frontier Lifeline Hospital (FLL), a specialty cardiac center in Chennai, India, and identify the barriers and limitations they faced. METHODS: This two-part retrospective study analyzed …
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Exploring Pediatric Healthcare Initiatives of Non-Governmental Organizations in Low-and Middle-Income Countries
Objective: To explore and describe how healthcare non-governmental organizations provide and evaluate programs and services that result in positive and sustainable health outcomes in children and adolescents living in low-and middle-income countries and to better understand the role of nursing …
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Towards Accessible Diagnostics: Developing CRISPR-Based Colorimetric Tools for Low- and Middle-Income Countries
There is a critical need to implement a sensitive and specific point-of-care biosensor that addresses the instrument constraints and manufacturing challenges faced in under-resourced contexts. While limited financial capital and educational resources are limiting factors, the barriers to …
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Women's status, state contexts and child undernutrition in low and middle income countries
… as a result of mainly household-level factors and morbidity while ignoring salient socio-structural determinants such as women s status and state contexts. However, in the past three decades women s status has improved socially, economically and politically, enabling them to realize their …
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Factors influencing childhood overweight and obesity in low and middle-income countries: a systematic review
… the current literature on childhood overweight and obesity in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) as defined by the World Bank. Many LMICs are experiencing a dual burden of under- and over-nutrition which has a widespread impact on global health. In addition, globalization and changes in …
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Health systems constraints and facilitators of national immunization programs in low- and middle- income countries
… within health systems. This means that NIPs and health systems exist in a constant interaction. Vaccine preventable diseases are widely recognized as the chief cause of morbidity, disability and mortality worldwide and NIPs are understood to be one of the most cost-effective interventions …
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Donor funding and crowding out of public spending: Evidence from low and middle-income countries
In many low-resource settings agricultural output and public spending on agriculture are in decline, raising questions about the effectiveness of agricultural aid. To understand why these trends are occurring, we examined factors that affect the share of government spending on agriculture. Using a …
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Design of a market-ready tractor for small farms in low- and middle-income countries
This paper presents the design, testing and user feedback of a new prototype of a tractor platform intended for use on small, resource-constrained farms. This development builds on past work by implementing several upgrades which promote market competitiveness and maximize functionality, …
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Analysis of Child Undernutrition Intervention Priorities Among Nutrition Stakeholders from Multiple Low and Middle-Income Countries
… Health Assembly 2025 targets call for reducing and maintaining the global prevalence of wasting (weight-for-height z score [WHZ] < - 2 SD) among children under five to below 5%. However, currently interventions that prevent wasting are characterized into two “camps” of preventing stunting and …
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Do Water Access Inequalities Matter for Child Mortality? A perspective from low-and-middle-income countries
… of water is well known in child health, whether and how the distribution of water access affects child mortality and its economic transmission channels remain unclear. In particular, child mortality caused by diarrhea received insufficient attention, although diarrhea is the second leading cause …
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Epileptic Spasms: Evidence for oral corticosteroids and implications for low and middle income countries (Systematic Review)
… access to adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH) and vigabatrin is restricted, especially in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMIC). Oral corticosteroids are alternative interventions but evidence for the optimal agent, dose, duration, efficacy and long-term effects are lacking. A systematic …
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Digital tools for training frontline health workers in low and middle-income countries: A systematic review
… health workers by 2030, predominantly affecting low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This sits in tension with the United Nations’ (UN) Sustainable Development Goal 3 (healthy lives and well-being) through universal health coverage (UHC). To address this problem, the WHO encourages task …
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Environmental health recommendations for Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review
Despite efforts towards the management and prevention of Tuberculosis (TB) having shown some success, Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) may potentially compromise these endeavours. MDR-TB has the potential to become the most dominant form of TB in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). …
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A scoping review on the use of telerehabilitation in physiotherapy in low and middle income countries
… in individuals with both drug-susceptible TB and HIV, identify covariates that influence ethambutol pharmacokinetics, and evaluate the current World Health Organization's (WHO) ethambutol dosing recommendations. Method: We used pharmacokinetic data from the TB-HAART open-label trial that …
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Inequality in health care utilization and equity: a cross-country comparision of low and middle income countries
… disparity in health care utilization, education and income from the low and middle income countries represented by Albania, Nepal, Tajikistan and Tanzania. Concentration indices are used to calculate the income related inequality in health care utilization and education, and Gini index is used to …
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