... screening costs in five developingcountries and provide important inputs for CEAs of alternative screening modalities Background Cervical cancer disproportionately affects women indevelopingcountries ... assess the costs and health effects of interventions for improving health indevelopingcountries BMJ 2005, 331:1137-1140 Disease Control Priorities inDevelopingCountries (2nd Edition) 2006 [http://www.dcp2.org/pubs/DCP] ... sample processing indeveloping country settings A study of the cost-effectiveness of cervical cancer screening in South Africa used information on laboratory costs from the existing cervical...
... an independent variable, the effect of initial income and inflation is all negative and initial income is significant in every group except in open economies and low inflation countries while inflation ... for all countries, low-income countries, middle-income countries, high-income countries, open economies, closed economies, low-inflation countries, and high-inflation countries For the sub-case ... in stimulating growth in Vietnam In deed, exports have been contributing to economic growth, and Vietnamese exports are quite similar to those of five other ASEAN developingcountries including...
... few studies examining the role of financial development in enhancing the contributions of FDI on economic growth in Asian developingcountries Vietnam is one of Asian developingcountries where ... research investigates the role of domestic financial development plays in enhancing FDI's positive effects on economic growth in Asian developingcountriesIn other words, we examine whether countries ... research is interested in Asian developingcountries for the three reasons Firstly, the role of capital and technology is very important to developingcountries Then, understanding how to utilizing FDI...
... 9840238 THE INFORMAL SECTOR IN SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT INDEVELOPINGCOUNTRIES The motivation for recycling indeveloping and industrialised countries is rather different In the latter recycling is ... INDEVELOPINGCOUNTRIES II.6 Problems of SWM indevelopingcountries ZURBRUGG (2002) identifies four typical problem areas for SWM indeveloping countries: • Inadequate service coverage and inefficiencies ... contributions of the informal sector for solid waste management indevelopingcountriesin general and in HCMC in particular and to find out whether an integration of the informal sector in the formal...
... of sustainability, or of threats to sustainability In order to this, proper sustainability criteria/indicators must provide this information, to indicate our progress in achieving sustainability ... drawbacks in attaining sustainability, Scenario is still an option as it brings many positive impacts in terms of environmental, economic, technical and functional aspects including low capital investment ... population in income group i in inventory year Ti,j = degree of utilization of treatment/discharge pathway or system, j, for each income group fraction i in an inventory year i = income group:...
... population explosion indevelopingcountries and in SSA in particular, is accompanied by increasing urban poverty and malnutrition [2,5] Newly assembled evidence from developingcountries indicates that ... bio-demographic covariates produced an increase of urban inequities in most countries is quite surprising Similar findings have been reported in other developingcountries like Brazil where Sastry ... substantially decreasing in Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean, it is on the rise in some countries of SSA, whilst in many others they remain disturbingly high or are declining only sluggishly...
... in the percent marrying before 18 in 24 countries and no change incountries The percent having premarital sex by age 18 has risen in 20 countries, and remained unchanged incountries Nonetheless, ... Panel on Transitions to Adulthood inDevelopingCountries Cynthia B Lloyd (ed.) Growing Up Global: The Changing Transitions to Adulthood inDevelopingCountries Washington, DC: National Academies ... is apparent in Figure 5b in that most points that not fall on the diagonal line (indicating gender equality) fall below the line indicating a higher percent of female students attending secondary...
... women.” 22 The burden of breast cancer indevelopingcountries Recent evidence shows that in middle-income developing countries, breast cancer is replacing cervical cancer as the number one cause ... becoming a pressing priority for women’s health in the developing world Informing women about their health and empowering them to take it in their hands is only a first step especially in the ... to 7.5% and 9.7% in high-income countries Cervical cancer accounts for 4.4% of deaths and 5.1% of DALYs in lower income countries, and for a much lower share in high-income countries –only 0.8%...
... access remains an abiding issue is access, particularly indevelopingcountries (Shilderman, 2002) Approaches that are being used for any of these purposes include: • developing of Internet information ... can, and are, being used for e-learning in a mixed toolbox approach (for example: including Internet, radio, SMS, PDAs and combining with print) Role and potential of ICTs in improving communication ... decision-making about strategic directions; options include developing more and more small scale interventions in locations where enabling factors are in evidence, developing shared learning about...
... teachers is an ongoing concern incountries already struggling to maintain the teaching force to attain EFA goals Incountries with generalized HIV epidemics, successful efforts to increase access ... side effects, teachers can easily be trained to administer the treatments Capitalizing on existing teacher training systems and incorporating deworming within a comprehensive school health framework ... education and learning outcomes Many NGOs working in the developing world also support training for and implementation of school health programs and have been instrumental in providing the technical...
... mortality by setting (deaths and % of total) Developed countriesDevelopingcountries Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2000, 78 (9) Indoor air pollution indevelopingcountries Exposure ... smoke trigger asthma in sensitized individuals (79, 81) Indeveloping countries, studies on biomass smoke in relation to asthma in children and adults have yielded mixed findings A questionnaire ... exposure is protective in these settings Cancer Lung cancer Tobacco smoke is the most important risk for lung cancer and explains most cases in industrialized countriesIndeveloping countries, non-smokers,...
... marketing and management Renewed interest in the topic is a result of the increasing role of emerging economies in export trade (Singh 2009) In a global world, and especially indeveloping countries, ... Bank classifies developingcountries as either low-income or middle-income countriesIn broad terms, by developingcountries we mean low-income countries still characterized by limited industrialization ... different route to international markets Indeveloping countries, an increasing number of firms go international by becoming contract manufacturers in a global value chain, created and coordinated by an...
... are more applicable indeveloping countries, for instance, to increasing milk yield in cows fed high forage diets in India [NDDB records quoted in Leng [1997] Industrialised countries normally ... 1984] Improving protein nutrition is the second strategy for increasing production in ruminants with a high protein requirements These include young animals following weaning, cows in the last ... basis for an industrialised pig and poultry industry to expand indevelopingcountries to meet the growing demand for meat Legislation for the inclusion of alcohol [an oxygenate] in gasoline for motor...
... countries are used there in production processes while fewer than percent of the patents issued indevelopingcountries go to developingcountries nationals Additionally, inventors in poor countries ... thuringensis) crops engineered to produce their own insecticide The logic behind herbicide resistance crops is the hope for the increased sales Biotechnology and food security indevelopingcountries ... factors in shaping the socio-economic, environmental and the food-security consequences of biotechnological innovations for the developingcountries Biotechnology via ‘genetic engineering’ involves...
... constraints for using gene-based technologies in animal agriculture indevelopingcountries and possible role of international donor agencies in promoting R&D in this field In FAO/IAEA international ... analysis of rinderpest viruses has been vital in determining the lineages circulating in the world and instrumental in aiding the Global Rinderpest Eradication Programme Enzyme-linked immunosorbent ... 128 The livestock economy indevelopingcountries Livestock is becoming increasingly important in the growth of agriculture indeveloping economies The contributions made by livestock...
... women to enter the labor force or intensify their involvement in income-earning activities to compensate for declining family income This in turn often involved calling on girls to take over the ... are preventing more effective work-family policies from being instituted indeveloping countries, but certainly advocates of such policies need to be aware of the issue In principle, international ... has been increasing Although some of the recorded increase in female participation indevelopingcountries reflects better accounting for unpaid labor, most observers would agree that in many...
... younger in India and 17–18-year-olds in Indonesia had significantly reduced odds of using antenatal care (0.8 and 0.5, respectively) In four countries (one in Latin America and three in Asia), ... and the measles vaccinations In six countries one in Africa (Uganda), two in Latin America (Nicaragua and Peru) and three in Asia (Bangladesh, India and Indonesia)—infants born to adolescents ... levels were lowest in Africa, moderate in Asia and relatively high in Latin America For countries where data were available, larger proportions of mothers in Latin America were still in school at the...
... Urban Poverty and Health inDevelopingCountries The era in which developingcountries could be depicted mainly in BY 2050, two-thirds of the developing world’s population is likely to live in urban areas ... particulates and other pollutants emitted by industry and vehicles.50 There is increasing interest in the problem in India, China, and other rapidly developingcountries of Asia, where the effects of ... Discussion Paper (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2002) Mental health interventions are only beginning to be studied indevelopingcountries Highly promising results have been obtained from several randomized...
... prescribe in 71% of the reporting countriesin Africa, in 38% of those in South-East Asia and in 25% of those in the Americas In contrast, none of the reporting countriesin the Eastern Mediterranean, ... middle-income countries low-income countries lower-middle-income countries middle-income countries nongovernmental organization primary health care WHO South-East Asia Region upper-middle-income countries ... systems inselected low- and middle-income countries: a WHO-AIMS cross-national analysis WHO Library Cataloguing -in- Publication Data Mental health systems inselected low- and middle-income countries: ...
... developed and developingcountries For prices indevelopingcountries these cancers, primary prevention is the most practical and often the only possible intervention indevelopingcountries Currently ... can, in principle, Effective tobacco and alcohol control programs be delivered through district health care facilities in include increasing taxes on the products, restricting developingcountries ... or banning advertising and promotion, banning cervical cancer, in particular, is feasible and cost-effective smoking in public places, educating the public about in low- and middle-income countries...