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Mortality of HIV-1-infected patients in the first year of antiretroviral therapy: comparison between low-income and high-income countries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
BACKGROUND: Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) is being scaled up in developing countries. We compared baseline characteristics and outcomes during the first year of HAART between HIV-1-infected patients in low-income and high-income settings ...
Wood, R   +35 more
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Monitoring breastfeeding indicators in high‐income countries: Levels, trends and challenges

open access: yesMaternal and Child Nutrition, 2021
Monitoring indicators of breastfeeding practices is important to protect and evaluate the progress of breastfeeding promotion efforts. However, high‐income countries lack standardized methodology to monitor their indicators.
Juliana S. Vaz   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing factors influencing greywater characteristics around the world: a qualitative and quantitative approach with a short-review on greywater treatment technologies

open access: yesDiscover Water
The obsolete efficiencies in conventional centralized wastewater treatment systems call for implementation of source separation and treatment of wastewater.
S. Mohan   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effects of guaranteed basic income interventions on poverty‐related outcomes in high‐income countries: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

open access: yesCampbell Systematic Reviews
Background High‐income countries offer social assistance (welfare) programs to help alleviate poverty for people with little or no income. These programs have become increasingly conditional and stringent in recent decades based on the premise that ...
Anita Rizvi   +27 more
doaj   +1 more source

Informal Transfers in Comparisons of Income Distributions: Lessons from Rich and Middle-Income Countries

open access: yes, 2018
Developing countries rely more heavily on financial transfers between private households for economic welfare. Using data from three middle income and three high income countries in the Luxembourg Income Study Database, this paper examines the effects of
Cai, Yixia, Evans, Martin
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Understanding why children die in high-income countries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Many factors affect child and adolescent mortality in high-income countries. These factors can be conceptualised within four domains—intrinsic (biological and psychological) factors, the physical environment, the social environment, and service delivery.
Sidebotham, Peter   +9 more
core   +1 more source

Income and child mortality in developing countries : a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Objective: We aimed to quantify the relationship between national income and infant and under-five mortality in developing countries. Design: We conducted a systematic literature search of studies that examined the relationship between income and child ...
Makuta, Innocent   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Top Income Shares and Mortality: Evidence from Advanced Countries

open access: yes, 2015
This article examines the effect of top income shares on crude death and infant mortality rates. We use balanced panel data that covers nine advanced countries over the period 1952-1998.
Böckerman, Petri
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The Interaction between Income Inequality and Imports of Manufactured Goods: A Case for Developing Countries

open access: yes, 2012
Questions surrounding income inequality have received much attention in recent economic literature. The effects of the imports of manufactured goods on income inequality in developing countries are found to be inconclusive in the existing literature ...
Rahnamamoghadam, Masha, Fawaz, Fadi
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