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A review of health worker vaccination programs in low, middle and upper middle-income countries

Public Health in Practice, 2023
Objectives: Health workers (HW) are at risk of contracting vaccine preventable diseases when caring for patients and communities. This study aims to evaluate the existing literature on the routine vaccination of health workers against a variety of ...
Gabriel C. Gaviola, Maddison McCarville, Stephanie Shendale, Tracey Goodman, Marta Lomazzi, Shalini Desai   +5 more
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Evaluating the Role of Governance in Boosting Human Capital to Shrink Income Inequality in Developing Countries

JDE (Journal of Developing Economies), 2022
Most of the developing countries in the world are facing a well-known challenging factor-like income inequality that affects the issue of balanced growth and welfare.
Tanbir Hossain
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Construction of machine learning-based models for cancer outcomes in low and lower-middle income countries: A scoping review

Frontiers in Oncology, 2022
BackgroundThe impact and utility of machine learning (ML)-based prediction tools for cancer outcomes including assistive diagnosis, risk stratification, and adjunctive decision-making have been largely described and realized in the high income and upper ...
John Adeoye, John Adeoye, Abdulwarith Akinshipo, Mohamad Koohi-Moghadam, Mohamad Koohi-Moghadam, Peter Thomson, Yu-Xiong Su, Yu-Xiong Su   +7 more
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Impacts of population growth and economic development on food security in low-income and middle-income countries

Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 2023
Attention to addressing undernourishment in low-and middle-income countries has expanded notably since the beginning of the 21st century. Population growth increases the overall demand for food, while income growth affects consumption patterns.
Goran Miladinov
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Informed consent rates for neonatal randomized controlled trials in low- and lower middle-income versus high-income countries: A systematic review.

PLoS ONE, 2021
ObjectiveLegal, ethical, and regulatory requirements of medical research uniformly call for informed consent. We aimed to characterize and compare consent rates for neonatal randomized controlled trials in low- and lower middle-income countries versus ...
Jacquelyn K Patterson, Stuti Pant, Denise F Jones, Syed Taha, Michael S Jones, Melissa S Bauserman, Paolo Montaldo, Carl L Bose, Sudhin Thayyil   +8 more
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Financial Inclusion, Poverty, and Income Inequality: Evidence from High, Middle, and Low-income Countries

Scientific Annals of Economics and Business, 2022
The past two decades have witnessed a high national importance to financial inclusion around the world. This paper intends to explore the impact of financial inclusion on poverty reduction and income inequality in the world, high, middle, and low-income ...
Driss Tsouli
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Trade Openness, Income Levels, Economic Growth, and Current Account Balances

Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Dergisi, 2022
The aim of this study is to investigate if the trade openness has an effect on the income levels, growth rates, and on the current account balances together for the first time in the literature. Two different trade openness measures are used.
Murat Çetrez
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Risk‐Attributable Burden of Ischemic Heart Disease in 137 Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries From 2000 to 2019

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2021
Background Ischemic heart disease (IHD) imposes the greatest disease burden globally, especially in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs). We aim to examine the population‐attributable fraction and risk‐attributable death and disability‐adjusted life ...
Chenran Wang, Yanghua Sun, Di Jiang, Chunping Wang, Shiwei Liu   +4 more
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Assessing the Impact of ICT, Tourism, Globalization and Urbanization on Environmental Degradation and Economic Growth

NUML International Journal of Business & Management, 2023
This study explores the impact of information and communication technology (ICT), tourism, globalization, and urbanization on the economic growth and environmental degradation of middle-income countries classified as overall, upper and lower-middle ...
Asma Parveen, Kashif Mehmood, Maryam Javed   +2 more
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Role of novel policy implementation for Gamma Knife (GK) procedures in improving access to neurosurgical care in lower middle income countries (LMICs) GK in LMICs

World Neurosurgery: X, 2023
Background: The high cost of GK machines with resultant scarcity of GK centers, coupled to additional cost of contrast MRI brain makes it nearly impossible for the vast majority of the population without health insurance in LMICs to have access to this ...
Bhavya Pahwa, Deepak Agrawal
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