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Access to medicines for acute illness in middle income countries in Central America [PDF]

, 2013
OBJECTIVE To analyze the main predictors of access to medicines for persons who experienced acute health conditions. METHODS This was a cross-sectional analytic study, based on data from household surveys.
Camacho, Luiz Antonio Bastos, Emmerick, Isabel Cristina Martins, Luiza, Vera Lucia, Ross-Degnan, Dennis   +3 more
core   +4 more sources

Survival for Children Diagnosed With Wilms Tumour (2012–2022) Registered in the UK and Ireland Improving Population Outcomes for Renal Tumours of Childhood (IMPORT) Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The Improving Population Outcomes for Renal Tumours of childhood (IMPORT) is a prospective clinical observational study capturing detailed demographic and outcome data on children and young people diagnosed with renal tumours in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.
Naomi Ssenyonga, Angela Lopez‐Cortes, Reem Al‐Saadi, Suzanne Tugnait, Kristina Dzhuma, Catriona Duncan, Gordan Vujanic, Tanzina Chowdhury, Claudia Allemani, Michel P. Coleman, Kathy Pritchard‐Jones, the Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group (CCLG) Renal Tumour Special Interest Group, Hugh Bishop, Anthony McCarthy, Pamela Kearns, Helen Rees, Amos Burke, Meriel Jenney, Jane Pears, Hamish Wallace, Milind Ronghe, Tanzina Chowdhury, Susan Picton, Emma Ross, Lisa Howell, Bernadette Brennan, Gail Halliday, Richard Grundy, Shaun Wilson, Sucheta Vaidya, Daniel Yeomanson, Jessica Bate, Vesna Pavasovic, Jessica Bate, Sabine Irtan, Jesper Brok, Minou Oostveen, Kristina Dzhuma, Mark Weeks, Richard Williams, Mark Powis, Max Pachl, Bruce Okoye, Naima Smeulders, Gordan Vujanic, Oystein Olsen, Tom Watson, Susan Shelmerdine, Dan Saunders, Angela Lopez-Cortes, Taryn Treger, Tom Jackson, Suzanne Tugnait, Lisa Howell, Tanzina Chowdhury, Sam Behjati, Angela Polanco   +56 more
wiley   +1 more source

Submission to the United Nations Secretary General's High Level Panel on Access to Medicines [PDF]

, 2016
Much of the current debate on health care goals, medical innovation and trade rules focuses on the misalignment between the need to provide incentives to innovation – mainly through a tight intellectual property (IPR) regime – and the resulting negative ...
Kale, Dinar, Mackintosh, Maureen, Orsenigo, Luigi, Simonetti, Roberto   +3 more
core  

The rise of companies from emerging markets in global health governance: opportunities and challenges [PDF]

, 2014
The article analyses the involvement of pharmaceutical companies from emerging markets in global health governance. It finds that they play a central role as low-cost suppliers of medicines and vaccines and, increasingly, new technologies.
ANNE ROEMER-MAHLER, Brooks, Brown, Buse, Chaudhuri, Clarke, Cooper Ramo, Drezner, Elbe, Fleury, Gold, Knight, Levy, Meyer, Petryna, Ramamurti, Roemer-Mahler, Schoofs, Wells, Whyte, Williams, Williamson, Youde, Zimmerman   +23 more
core   +1 more source

The MedSupport Multilevel Intervention to Enhance Support for Pediatric Medication Adherence: Development and Feasibility Testing

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction We developed MedSupport, a multilevel medication adherence intervention designed to address root barriers to medication adherence. This study sought to explore the feasibility and acceptability of the MedSupport intervention strategies to support a future full‐scale randomized controlled trial.
Elizabeth G. Bouchard, Hital Patel, Paula C. Vincent, Justine Kahn, Kira Bona, Thai Hoa Tran, Elisa M. Rodriguez, Kristopher Attwood, Kara M. Kelly   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Promising Trends in Access to Medicines [PDF]

Global Policy, 2012
AbstractIt is a vast understatement to say that the problem of access to medicines in developing countries is complex. Access is limited by a range of factors including inability to pay, a lack of infrastructure, and corruption in some countries. Surrounding and exacerbating these structural and technological problems is the layer of legal rights ...
Morin, Jean-Frédéric, Gold, Richard E.
openaire   +3 more sources

Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Pediatric, Adolescent, and Young Adult Patients With Osteosarcoma: Local Control Outcomes With Dosimetric Analysis

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Osteosarcoma is a radioresistant tumor that may benefit from stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for locoregional control in metastatic/recurrent disease. We report institutional practice patterns, outcomes, toxicity, and failures in osteosarcoma patients treated with SBRT.
Jenna Kocsis, Shauna R. Campbell, Jonathan Jang, Eashwar Somasundaram, Chandana A. Reddy, Jacob G. Scott, Lilyana Angelov, Peter M. Anderson, Matteo Trucco, Zachary Burke, Lukas Nystrom, Nathan Mesko, Anthony Magnelli, Erin S. Murphy   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Harnessing the power of artificial intelligence in diagnostic systems

Machine Learning: Health
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are poised to reshape medical diagnostics, yet their path to integration is marked by both promise and complexity.
J Dong, D Woo, Y Wang, R Matiru
doaj   +1 more source

Enhancing digital road networks for better transportation in developing countries

Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Data scarcity in developing countries often poses significant challenges to the use of analytics in addressing development issues. In transportation research, digitized road data is one of the most fundamental data structures, and a poorly digitized road
V.F. Stienen, D. den Hertog, J.C. Wagenaar, J.F. de Zegher   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Study protocol for a cluster-randomized controlled trial of an NCD access to medicines initative: Evaluation of Novartis Access in Kenya [PDF]

, 2016
INTRODUCTION: Novartis recently launched Novartis Access, an initiative to provide a basket of reduced price medicines for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) to be sold through the public and private nonprofit sectors in programme countries.
Ashigbie, Paul G., Laing, Richard, Onyango, Monica A., Rockers, Peter C., Vian, Taryn, Wirtz, Veronika J.   +5 more
core   +1 more source