Robust national policies and strategies developed and owned by national authorities are fundamental for prevention and control of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The objective of this paper is to address broad policy areas in respect of NCD prevention and control from a public health perspective, with a special focus on low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). The paper is a condensation of c...

The advancement of 3-Dimensional (3D) printing technology has made the design and production items increasingly ubiquitous amongst public. This is being used widely in various medical fields. With its increasing cost efficiency accessibility, it author's perspective that 3D can improve accessibility to surgical procedures low- medium-income countries (LMIC) by providing proceduralists with basi...

The unequal distribution of neurosurgical resources and diseases in the world contributes to inequality. Eight in ten neurosurgical cases needing essential neurosurgical care are found in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs); however, LMICs lack the neurosurgical resources to address these needs. Besides, where neurosurgical care is available, it is not financially accessible to the majorit...

Background Units providing specialised, advanced care for children and adults with CHD are few and far-in-betwen in developing nations, despite having the greater proportion of the world’s burden of CHD. CHD scores low among the health care priorities of the State in most low-medium income countries (LMIC).However, centers of excellence in CHD care have emerged even in these environments with r...

BACKGROUND In the last decades, a sustained increment of Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) production in the world has been accompanied by a growing concern about their quality. Many studies related to quality assessment of guidelines produced in High Income Countries were published; however, evidence on this topic is scarce in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMIC). The objectives of this res...

BACKGROUND The burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is increasing in low-to-middle income countries (LMIC). Although strong evidence for inverse associations between socioeconomic position and health outcomes in high-income countries exists, less is known about LMIC. Understanding country-level differences is critical to tailoring effective population health policy and interventions. We exami...

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) were previously considered to only affect high-income countries. However, they now account for a very large burden in terms of both mortality and morbidity in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), although little is known about the impact these diseases have on households in these countries. In this paper, we present a literature review on the costs imposed ...

BACKGROUND The knowledge generated from evidence-based interventions in mental health systems research is seldom translated into policy and practice in low and middle-income countries (LMIC). Stakeholder analysis is a potentially useful tool in health policy and systems research to improve understanding of policy stakeholders and increase the likelihood of knowledge translation into policy and ...

The Results section of the Abstract needs to be reworded to reflect the findings, as the current wording (“studies identified that plain packaging reduced appeal of tobacco products in low income settings”; p.4, lines 3-5) suggests a direction of effect that was only assessed in one study – the others are cross-sectional. Perhaps change the word “reduced” and/or rephrase to something like “plai...