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Acute liver failure in low-income and middle-income countries

The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology, 2023
Acute liver failure is a rare condition involving the rapid development, progression, and worsening of liver dysfunction, characterised by coagulopathy and encephalopathy, and has a high mortality unless liver transplantation is performed. Population-based studies are scarce, and most published data are from high-income countries, where the main cause ...
Sandro, Vento, Francesca, Cainelli
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Paediatric cancer in low-income and middle-income countries

The Lancet Oncology, 2013
Patterns of cancer incidence across the world have undergone substantial changes as a result of industrialisation and economic development. However, the economies of most countries remain at an early or intermediate stage of development-these stages are characterised by poverty, too few health-care providers, weak health systems, and poor access to ...
Ian Magrath, Eva Steliarova-Foucher, Sidnei Epelman, Raul C Ribeiro, Mhamed Harif, Chi-Kong Li, Rejin Kebudi, Scott D Macfarlane, Scott C Howa   +8 more
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Lower-middle-income countries

, 2021
Data of lower middle-income countries between 1980 and 2018 to study whether indigenous or foreign innovation efforts are more important for the transition of lower middle-income economies to the upper middle-income rank.
Huong Ngo (11634934)
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Heart failure in low-income and middle-income countries

Heart
Heart failure (HF) is a complex syndrome which leads to significant morbidity and mortality, poor quality of life and extremely high costs to healthcare systems worldwide. Although progress in the management of HF in high-income countries is leading to an overall reduction in the incidence and mortality of HF, there is a starkly different scenario in ...
Irina Mbanze, Timothy F Spracklen, Neusa Jessen, Albertino Damasceno, Karen Sliwa   +4 more
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Cancer burden in low-income and middle-income countries

Nature Reviews Cancer
As cancer detection rates and therapy successes increase in high-income countries, it is predicted that over the next decade more than 75% of cancer-related deaths will occur in low-income and middle-income countries. Sub-Saharan Africa, which contains many of these countries, is currently unprepared with inadequate screening and detection methods ...
Asirwa, Chite, Mungo, Chemtai, Grover, Surbhi, Anandasabapathy, Sharmila   +3 more
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Income, income inequality and youth smoking in low‐ and middle‐income countries

Addiction, 2013
AbstractAimsTo examine the relationships between income, income inequality and current smoking among youth in low‐ and middle‐income countries.DesignPooled cross‐sectional data from the Global Youth Tobacco Surveys, conducted in low‐ and middle‐income countries, were used to conduct multi‐level logistic analyses that accounted for the nesting of ...
David X, Li, G Emmanuel, Guindon
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Law and Development in Middle-Income Countries: Introduction

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
In 1960, there were 101 middle-income countries (MICs). By 2008, only thirteen had become high-income countries (HICs). Why do so many middle-income countries fail to develop after a promising start, becoming mired in the so-called “middle-income trap?” This is the introductory chapter to an interdisciplinary volume that addresses the special ...
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Financing the Response to HIV in Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries

JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 2009
To describe levels of national HIV spending and examine programmatic allocations according to the type of epidemic and country income.Cross-sectional analysis of HIV expenditures from 50 low-income and middle-income countries. Sources of information included country reports of domestic spending by programmatic activity and HIV services.
José Antonio, Izazola-Licea, Jan, Wiegelmann, Christian, Arán, Teresa, Guthrie, Paul, De Lay, Carlos, Avila-Figueroa   +5 more
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HIV drug resistance in low-income and middle-income countries

The Lancet HIV, 2018
After 15 years of global scale-up of antiretroviral therapy (ART), rising prevalence of HIV drug resistance in many low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) poses a growing threat to the HIV response, with the potential to drive an increase in mortality, HIV incidence, and costs. To achieve UNAIDS global targets, enhanced strategies are needed to
Hamers, R, De Wit, T, Holmes, C
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Law and Development in Middle-Income Countries

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
This concluding chapter summarizes the key findings, locates these findings within the existing literatures on law and development and related fields, develops policy recommendations for MIC governments and development agencies, and highlights areas for further research.
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