This study looked at two research questions: Are economically developing countries spending a comparable percentage of their budgets, compared to industrialized nations, on ICT investment? What ICT investment framework should economically developing countries use to spur economic activities? We used annual telecommunication investment (ATI) as percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as a sur...

The working group summarized the conclusions of the workshop with the intention of providing a guide for the preparation of national plans for tuberculosis elimination. The basic strategies that appear consistently effective are: 1. Direct government responsibility for diagnosis, treatment and prevention of tuberculosis (the government is responsible by law for assuring that tuberculosis is ide...

Of all the industrialized countries of the world, Japan has the highest rate of hepatitis C. It also has 1 of the oldest and most varied histories of hepatitis C in the world among the industrialized modern nations. Hepatitis C and its complications are the leading cause of liver cancer in Japan. Japan has the highest rate of liver cancer among the industrialized countries. From 2004 to 2014, P...

The automotive industry is one of the main employers in industrialized countries [...]

Tobacco is a leading cause of preventable death worldwide. For 2002, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that 5 million deaths were attributable to smoking.1 This issue of Circulation contains a detailed analysis of the 1.62 million deaths that smoking contributes to global and regional cause-specific mortality from cardiovascular disease.2 Ezzati et al estimate that 1 in 10 cardiovas...

Thrombosis is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality, not only in aging industrialized countries, but also many emerging economies1.

Recent discoveries show steady improvements in life expectancy during modern decades. Does this support that humans continue to live longer in future? We recently put forward the maximum survival tendency, as found in survival curves of industrialized countries, which is described by extended Weibull model with age-dependent stretched exponent. The maximum survival tendency suggests that human ...

response to emotional distress in young adults,1 and it is now one of the most frequent reasons for emergency hospital admission.2 In industrialized countries, the drugs that people commonly take in overdose—analgesics, tranquillisers, antidepressants3— are relatively non-toxic. The estimated case fatality for overdose in England, for example, is around 0.5%.4 Most individuals who self-harm do ...

The long-term care (LTC) literature has been generally associated with industrialized countries. However, LTC needs are increasing in the developing world at a rate that far exceeds than experienced by industrialized countries. Using China as a case study, the purpose of this report is to provide an example of an emerging institutional care system for rural elders in a rapidly developing countr...