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Asthma management in low and middle income countries: case for change

open access: yesEuropean Respiratory Journal, 2022
Asthma is the most common noncommunicable disease in children, and among the most common in adults. The great majority of people with asthma live in low and middle income countries (LMICs), which have disproportionately high asthma-related morbidity and ...
K. Mortimer   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Epidemiological Differences in Hajj-Acquired Airborne Infections in Pilgrims Arriving from Low and Middle-Income versus High-Income Countries: A Systematised Review

open access: yesTropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2023
This systematised review aims to compare the epidemiological patterns of Hajj-acquired airborne infections among pilgrims from low and middle-income countries (LMIC) versus those from high-income countries (HIC).
Hashim A. Mahdi   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Increasing countries financial resilience through global catastrophe risk pooling [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2022
Extreme weather events can have severe impacts on national economies, leading the recovery of low- to middle-income countries to become reliant on foreign financial aid. Foreign aid, however, is slow and uncertain. Therefore, the Sendai Framework and the Paris Agreement advocate for more resilient financial instruments like sovereign catastrophe risk ...
arxiv  

Mobile Health (mHealth) in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.

open access: yesAnnual Review of Public Health, 2021
This article reflects on current trends and proposes new considerations for the future of mobile technologies for health (mHealth). Our focus is predominantly on the value of and concerns with regard to the application of digital health within low- and ...
J. McCool   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A systematic review of care pathways for psychosis in low-and middle-income countries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Pathways to care for psychosis in high-income countries have been well studied, with the finding of an association between longer duration of untreated psychosis (DUP) and poorer outcomes focusing interest on care pathways to minimise treatment delay ...
Lilford, Philippa   +2 more
core   +1 more source

A Bayesian analysis of current duration data with reporting issues: an application to estimating the distribution of time-between-sex from time-since-last-sex data as collected in cross-sectional surveys in low- and middle-income countries [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2023
Aggregate measures of family planning are used to monitor demand for and usage of contraceptive methods in populations globally, for example as part of the FP2030 initiative. Family planning measures for low- and middle-income countries are typically based on data collected through cross-sectional household surveys.
arxiv  

Anemia prevalence in women of reproductive age in low- and middle-income countries between 2000 and 2018

open access: yesNature Network Boston, 2021
Anemia is a globally widespread condition in women and is associated with reduced economic productivity and increased mortality worldwide. Here we map annual 2000–2018 geospatial estimates of anemia prevalence in women of reproductive age (15–49 years ...
Damaris K. Kinyoki   +499 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Regulatory Reforms for Health Facilities: Can These Suffice?; Comment on “What Lies Behind Successful Regulation? A Qualitative Evaluation of Pilot Implementation of Kenya’s Health Facility Inspection Reforms” [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2023
In their study on how Joint Health Inspections (JHI) were implemented in practice with a need to identify key facilitators or barriers for regulatory policy and practice, Tama et al found that innovative regulatory reforms markedly improved inspection ...
Arthur Bagonza   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The COVID-19 Pandemic: Effects on Low- and Middle-Income Countries

open access: yesAnesthesia and Analgesia, 2020
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is spreading rapidly around the world with devastating consequences on patients, health care workers, health systems, and economies.
C. Bong   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Vaccine equity in low and middle income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis

open access: yesInternational Journal for Equity in Health, 2022
Background Evidence to date has shown that inequality in health, and vaccination coverage in particular, can have ramifications to wider society. However, whilst individual studies have sought to characterise these heterogeneities in immunisation ...
H. Ali   +11 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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