... that adjusting for bio-demographiccovariates produced an increase of urban inequities in most countries is quite surprising. Similar findings havebeen reported in other developingcountries ... pop-ulation explosion indevelopingcountries and in SSA in particular, is accompanied by increasing urban povertyand malnutrition [2,5].Newly assembled evidence from developing countries indicates that ... 15 countries NApd35.6 5.4 323 -0.7Sub-Saharan Africa NAp 34.0 4.7 572 -0.8 Developing countries NAp 40.5 3.5 NAveNAvaRanking within 48 African countries. Countries are ranked in decreasing...
... decline or no change. In sub-Saharan Africa, of the 27 countries with recent data on trends, there has been a decline in the percent marrying before 18 in 24 countries and no change in 3 countries. ... apparent in Figure 5b in that most points that do not fall on the diagonal line (indicating gender equality) fall below the line indicating a higher percent of female students attending secondary ... been no rise in the percent having sex before 18; instead, in the majority of countries the percent having sex before 18 has either remained unchanged (14 countries) or fallen (8 countries) ....
... and middle income High-income countries Low and middle income High income countries countries countriesBreast cancer Cervical cancerDeaths DALYs lost6.44.47.50.87.45.19.71.2 In the case ... women.” 22The burden of breast cancer in developing countries Recent evidence shows that in middle-income develop-ing countries, breast cancer is replacing cervical cancer as the number one ... 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...
... constructing latrines for both boys and girls, constructing walls and fences, and developing protocols for managing violence at schoolã Developing and posting school health policies, including ... idea indeveloping countries? School health programs indevelopingcountries often date to the 1970s, 1960s, or even earlier, often to colonial-era antecedents (Bundy, 2011). Many developingcountries ... 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...
... coal has been found1083Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2000, 78 (9)Indoor air pollution indeveloping countries Indoor air pollution indeveloping countries: amajor environmental ... is protective in these settings.CancerLung cancerTobacco smoke is the most important risk for lungcancer and explains most cases in industrialized countries. Indeveloping countries, non-smokers,frequently ... smoke trigger asthma in sensitized individuals (79, 81). In developing countries, studies on biomasssmoke in relation to asthma in children and adultshave yielded mixed findings. A questionnaire...
... a different route to internationalmarkets. Indeveloping countries, an increasing number of firms go internationalby becom ing contract manufacturers in a global value chain, created and coordi-nated ... SMEs in developing countries, where relatively few entrepreneurs have international experience ora high level of management education. Compared to those in developed countries, firms indeveloping ... interested in selling products by adopting a commonframework; firms belonging to a research and development consortium, who areinterested in combining their resources and competences in order...
... 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 ... 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 ... 0.220800.20.40.60.811.21.401234567Protein meal intake [gCP/kg LWt/day]Increase in LWt [kg/day] 2REQUIREMENTS FOR PROTEIN MEALS FOR RUMINANT MEAT PRODUCTION INDEVELOPINGCOUNTRIES By R A...
... developingcountries are used there in production processes while fewer than 1 percent of the patents issued in developing countries go to developingcountries nationals. Additionally, inventors ... modern biotechnological revolution (genetic engineering) on food security indeveloping countries. It finds that within the present framework, where innovations are driven by profit rather than ... security indevelopingcountries 47 Concentration of research in biotechnology in the private domain, controlled by a few multinational companies of the North, and coupled with development of an international...
... constraints forusing gene-based technologies in animal agriculture in developingcountries and possible role of international donoragencies in promoting R&D in this field. In FAO/IAEAinternational ... analysis of rinderpest viruses hasbeen vital in determining the lineages circulating in theworld and instrumental in aiding the Global RinderpestEradication Programme. Enzyme-linked immunosorbentassays ... Rev. sci. tech. Off. int. Epiz., 24 (1)131 The livestock economy in developing countries Livestock is becoming increasingly important in thegrowth of agriculture indeveloping economies. Thecontributions...
... 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 ... schooling.2 Before reviewing existing empirical work I outline, in the next section, the conceptual frameworks delineating the pathways linking women’s work to child outcomes. This informs ... other hand, infants, who require very intensive caregiving (including breastfeeding), may incur nutritional risk. Less well understood, and warranting more investigation, are the links between...
... weredisaggregated into two subgroups, only those 16 or younger in India and 17–18-year-olds in Indonesia had significant-ly reduced odds of using antenatal care (0.8 and 0.5, re-spectively). In four countries ... biases againstyouth in clinical settings, including examination of providerattitudes, health care policies and logistical issues. Howev-er, the few studies that have focused on maternal and in- fant ... were lowest in Africa, moderate in Asia and relativelyhigh in Latin America. For countries where data were avail-able, larger proportions of mothers in Latin America werestill in school at...
... 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 ... package of effective interventions applied in high-income countries has typically not been implemented in low-income countries. These include behavioral interventions—promoting seat belt use for ... among the leading causes of death for adults in low- and middle-income countries, killing an estimated 1.6 million people worldwide in 2005.44 As in the 19th century, urban crowding increases...
... are an ideal way to begin controlling cancer indeveloping countries. Burden of Cancer in Developing Countries Although data on cancer cases and deaths indeveloping countries are more limited ... strategies indeveloping countries, more work is needed in the following areas.ã Clinical evaluations of cancer control interventions should be undertaken in low- and middle-income countries, in ... rates in developed countries because they are related to tobacco use, diet, and carcinogens in the workplace. ese cancers are becoming more common indevelopingcountries as people increasingly...
... Abstract In developing countries, weak environmental regulatory institutions often undermine conventional command-and-control policies. As a result, these countries are increasingly experimenting ... literature—and for that matter in all research on environmental management indevelopingcountries is acquiring data on environmental performance. In most developing countries, credible plant-level ... contributions to our understanding of the determinants of environmental performance indeveloping countries, most fall short of convincingly isolating and identifying causal impacts of regulatory...
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