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Traffic Safety: Emerging Concerns for Low and Middle Income Countries

open access: yesJournal of Road Safety, 2016
This paper examines the data available from published reports to understand the shortcomings in our present understanding of the following road safety issues: the relationship between national income and traffic safety; relative risk of different ...
Dinesh Mohan, Kavi Bhalla
doaj  

The impact of income inequality and national wealth on child and adolescent mortality in low and middle-income countries

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2017
Background Income inequality and national wealth are strong determinants for health, but few studies have systematically investigated their influence on mortality across the early life-course, particularly outside the high-income world.
Joseph L. Ward, Russell M. Viner
doaj   +1 more source

The future of psychiatry in low- and middle-income countries [PDF]

open access: yesPsychological Medicine, 2009
The great shortage, and inequitable distribution, of psychiatrists in low- and middle-income countries is one of the key reasons for the large treatment gap for people with mental disorders. Psychiatrists need to play a public mental health leadership role in increasing the coverage of mental health care through task shifting of effective interventions
openaire   +4 more sources

Opportunities in Therapeutic mRNA Stabilization: Sequence, Structure, Adjuvants and Vectors

open access: yesAdvanced Therapeutics, EarlyView.
Current mRNA lipid nanoparticles rely on cold storage, which increases the cost and reduces access to the vaccines. As mRNA expands to other clinical opportunities, better methods to stabilize the medicines during shipping, storage, and delivery are needed.
Joshua A. Choe   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Deep Learning‐Enhanced Hand‐Driven Microfluidic Chip for Multiplexed Nucleic Acid Detection Based on RPA/CRISPR

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Efficient R‐CHIP HR‐HPV Screening System: The R‐CHIP system utilizes the RPA/CRISPR method, a hand‐driven centrifugal microfluidic device, a smartphone micro‐imaging system, and the ResNet‐18 deep‐learning algorithm to simplify the sample detection process, ensure accurate results, and reduce costs.
Tao Xu   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Socioeconomic status and COPD among low- and middle-income countries

open access: yesInternational Journal of COPD, 2016
Matthew Grigsby,1,2 Trishul Siddharthan,1 Muhammad AH Chowdhury,3 Ali Siddiquee,3 Adolfo Rubinstein,4 Edgardo Sobrino,4 J Jaime Miranda,5,6 Antonio Bernabe-Ortiz,5 Dewan Alam,7 William Checkley1,2 1Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, School of ...
Grigsby M   +9 more
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Depression comorbid with tuberculosis and its impact on health status: cross-sectional analysis of community-based data from 48 low- and middle-income countries

open access: yesBMC Medicine, 2017
Background Depression in tuberculosis increases the risk for adverse health outcomes. However, little is known about comorbid depression and tuberculosis in the general population.
Ai Koyanagi   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Screening for Cancer in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

open access: yesAnnals of Global Health, 2014
Screening programs involve testing asymptomatic individuals with an accurate screening test to identify those likely to have the disease of interest and to further investigate them to confirm or exclude the disease. The aim of cancer screening is to prevent cancer deaths and improve quality of life by finding cancers early and by effectively treating ...
openaire   +4 more sources

US employment exposure to domestic and foreign tariff changes under NAFTA

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract Literature examining the effects of changes in trade agreements and import competition on US employment and wages has focused primarily on non‐agricultural industries and changes in US import tariffs. We propose a method for measuring worker exposure to changes in agricultural tariffs using a newly developed county‐level dataset of employment ...
Diane E. Charlton   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fiscal consequences of armed conflict and terrorism in low- and middle-income countries [PDF]

open access: green, 2004
Sanjeev Gupta   +3 more
openalex   +2 more sources

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