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Evaluating academic mentorship programs in low-and middle-income country institutions: Proposed framework and metrics
(American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2019)
A growing number of low- and middle-income country (LMIC) institutions have developed and implemented formal programs to support mentorship. Although the individual-level benefits of mentorship are well established, such ...
Framing health taxes: Learning from low-and middle-income countries
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2023)
Health taxes are effective policy instruments to save lives, raise government revenues and improve equity. Health taxes, however, directly conflict with commercial actors' interests. Both pro-Tax health advocates and ...
The middle class and the development process
(ECLAC, 2008-04)
Stable, higher income democracies often have both a strong middle class and relatively low levels of inequality. In contrast, lower and middle income countries with highly unequal patterns of income distribution and ...
Global inequalities in the double burden of malnutrition and associations with globalisation: a multilevel analysis of Demographic and Healthy Surveys from 55 low-income and middle-income countries, 1992-2018.
(Elsevier, 2022)
Background: Low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) face a double burden of malnutrition (DBM), whereby overnutrition and undernutrition coexist within the same individual, household, or population. This analysis ...
Optimizing outcomes for children with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in low- and middle-income countries by early correct diagnosis, reducing toxic death and preventing abandonment
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2019-02-10)
In high-income countries, more than 90% of children with mature B-cell lymphomas are cured with frontline therapy. However, cure requires prompt and correct diagnosis, careful risk stratification, very intense chemotherapy ...
Interventional programs to improve therapeutic management of people with epilepsy in low- and middle-income countries
(Elsevier, 2018)
OBJECTIVE: To assess the current status of initiatives carried out in developing countries to improve therapeutic management of people with epilepsy. METHODS: A literature review was performed in 2015 to identify and analyze ...
Challenges to implementing national comprehensive sexuality education curricula in low- and middle-income countries: Case studies of Ghana, Kenya, Peru and Guatemala
(Public Library of Science, 2018)
School-based comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) can help adolescents achieve their full potential and realize their sexual and reproductive health and rights. This is particularly pressing in low- and middle-income ...
Management of NCD in low- And middle-income countries
(Elsevier, 2014)
Noncommunicable disease (NCD), comprising cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, are increasing in incidence rapidly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Some patients ...
Gender income gap among physicians and nurses in Peru: a nationwide assessment
(Elsevier, 2019)
The difference in salary among male and female health professionals has received important attention in the past few years. In the USA, an unadjusted estimation showed that male physicians earn on average 25% more than ...
Association between early childhood caries and poverty in low and middle income countries
(BioMed Central, 2020)
BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between early childhood caries (ECC) in 3–5-year-old children, seven indicators of poverty and the indicator of monetary poverty in low- and middle-income ...