Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is fast becoming a major public health issue, disproportionately burdening low-income to middle-income countries, where detection rates remain low. We critically assessed the extant literature on CKD screening in low-income to middle-income countries. We performed a PubMed search, up to September 2016, for studies on CKD screening in low-income to middle-income coun...

The Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study is an investigator initiated programme to assess the health of more than 600 communities selected from 17 countries. Three high-income countries, seven middle-income and seven low-income countries are taking part. As the name suggests, PURE also looks at differences between rural and urban communities. It’s a massive undertaking which is sta...

Some writers have predicted that new technologies mean the ‘death of distance’, allowing suitably skilled economies to converge with high income countries. This paper evaluates this claim. It argues that geography matters for international income inequalities, and that new technologies will change, but not abolish this dependence. Some activities may become more entrenched in high income countr...

T he main objective of this study is to estimate the spatial spillover effects of the economic growth among the selected countries of MENA region. For this purpose, the Spatial Durbin Model in the framework of spatial dynamic panel data was estimated during the period of 1970-2010. The spatial Diagnostic tests affirmed the occurrence of spatial positive autocorrelation phenomenon for...

The changing demands on the health sectors in low- and middle-income countries especially sub-Saharan African countries continue to challenge efforts to address critical shortages of the health workforce. Addressing these challenges have led to the evolution of “non-physician clinicians” (NPCs), that assume some physician roles and thus mitigate the continuing shortage of doctors in these count...

G .P .S . 01 701 32 W o rk : Q u o ta O w n b u s in e s s C o rp o ra te w o rk e r S tu d y ( > 3 m o n th s ) R e la ti v e ’s S tu d e n t e x c h a n g e p ro g ra m m e C u lt u ra l/ e c o n o m ic /s o c ia l e x c h a n g e p ro g ra m m e W o rk : G e n e ra l In tr a -c o m p a n y t ra n s fe r E x c e p ti o n a l s k ill s M e d ic a l (> 3 m o n th s ) W o rk e x c h a n g e p ro...

This paper tries to determine the most vulnerable points of high–income countries during Covid-19 pandemic in an MCDM setting. For this aim, we use entropy method obtain criteria weights and PIV for comparisons. We employ a wide range that account political, demographic, capacity, indicators including vaccination. Our sample consists 40 HICs. The results reveal with less equitable healthcare sy...