Advances in cancer treatment over the last few decades have been nothing short of remarkable, and led to significant improvements survival quality life.This has possible with several noticeable changes such as discovery molecular mechanisms cancer, targeted drug development, better laboratory methods. However, a majority this benefit is confined high income countries (HICs), international dispa...

Abstract An international web meeting on the topic of operator safety for pesticide operators was held 20–21 September 2021. The provided an opportunity experts from regulatory agencies, industry, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), other organizations to discuss in low- middle-income countries (LMIC). focused risk assessment mitigation, first steps address safety. key message at need expo...

Sri Lanka is an island in the Indian subcontinent with approximately 21 million people [1]. The country has been recently identified as a Lower Middle Income Country (LMIC) based on World Bank ratings with a gross national income (GNI) per capita of 3800 USD in 2015 [1, 2]. With an excellent human development index, Sri Lanka boasts of excellent health indicators on par with high income countri...

Background Economic growth in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) has raised interest in how disease burden patterns are related to economic development. Meanwhile, poverty-related diseases are considered to be neglected in terms of research and development (R&D). Objectives Developing intuitive and meaningful metrics to measure how different diseases are related to poverty and neglected in...

BACKGROUND Traumatic injury causes more than five million deaths each year of which about 90% occur in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). Hospital trauma mortality has been significantly reduced in high-income countries, but to what extent similar results have been achieved in LMIC has not been studied in detail. Here, we assessed if early hospital mortality in patients with trauma has ch...

Intro: Low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) represent a disproportionate share of the global burden skin disease. Despite this, dermatologic research funding agenda-setting have been largely skewed towards disease in high income countries. Little is known about representation authorship dermatology literature, especially with regard to LMICs. The aim this study was quantify geographic recent...

A major constraint to the application of any form of knowledge and principles is the awareness, understanding and acceptance of the knowledge and principles. Systems Thinking (ST) is a way of understanding and thinking about the nature of  health systems and how to make and implement decisions within health systems to maximize desired and minimize undesired effects. A major constraint to applyi...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the price elasticity of cigarette demand among youth in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). DATA The Global Youth Tobacco Survey was used to obtain data on the smoking behaviour of 315,353 adolescents from 17 LMIC. DESIGN Two-part model of cigarette demand with country fixed effects. The first part estimates the impact of prices on smoking participation while the ...