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Metabolic control in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in a public hospital in Peru: a cross-sectional study in a low-middle income country
... Prevalence of depression in our patients with T2DM was 33.33%, which is five times the prevalence of depression reported in the general population (6.7%) (Instituto Especial- izado de Salud Mental Honorio Delgado –Hideyo ...
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PRIME: a programme to reduce the treatment gap for mental disorders in five low- and middle-income countries.
... We will use a range of research designs to answer our key questions, as shown in Table 2. In the Inception phase we conducted a situational analysis of the mental health system in the selected district in each ...
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A framework for the monitoring and evaluation of international surgical initiatives in low- and middle-income countries.
... Several themes emerged from the study: (i) there is a large unmet need to establish and maintain prospective databases in LMICs to inform the monitoring and evaluation of interna- tional surgical partnerships; (ii) ...
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The burden is great and the money little: Changing chronic disease management in low– and middle–income countries
... Identifying inefficiencies and cost–effective interventions to improve health systems performance is laudable. Such a strategy will not, however, overcome the fundamental bottleneck. Health systems were never designed to ...
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What Prevents Quality Midwifery Care? A Systematic Mapping of Barriers in Low and Middle Income Countries from the Provider Perspective.
... The “three delays” model [1994] identified barriers to accessing care from the perspective of childbearing women; (1) delay in the decision to seek care; (2) delay in arriving at a health facil- ity and (3) delay in the ...
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Maternal and Perinatal Outcomes of Twin Pregnancy in 23 Low- and Middle-Income Countries
... For this study we analyzed maternal and perinatal data from singleton and twin pregnancies in 23 LMICs (Japan was excluded as it is a high-income country). The primary maternal outcome was maternal death ...
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Screening for decreased glomerular filtration rate and associated risk factors in a cohort of HIV-infected patients in a middle-income country.
... from low-income settings [23–25]. Healthcare in middle-income countries fits between these two ...While low-income countries still struggle to meet the needs of their people, ...
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Chronic Physical Conditions, Multimorbidity, and Mild Cognitive Impairment in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
... The analysis adjusted for a number of potential confound- ers that have been reported to be linked with MCI and chronic physical conditions. 9,35,36 Sociodemographic con- trol variables included age, sex, education (no ...
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Factors Contributing to Maternal and Child Mortality Reductions in 146 Low- and Middle-Income Countries between 1990 and 2010.
... No single health input dominated as the cause of mortality decline. Rather, the summation of improvements in many different policy areas is what saved lives. Economic growth and good governance, while valuable ends in ...
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Prevalence of physical activity among adolescents from 105 low, middle, and high-income countries
... single country, age and sex were factors associated with PA ...the low levels of PA, countries would benefit and should invest in the promotion of PA in all its forms (including recreational PA, sports ...
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Early Childhood Developmental Status in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: National, Regional, and Global Prevalence Estimates Using Predictive Modeling.
... Measures of cognitive and socioemotional development. The primary source of child development data was the ECDI, administered as part of the fourth and fifth rounds of the MICS and as part of wave VI of the DHS. The ECDI ...
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Adherence to malaria prophylaxis among travelers from a middle-income country
... of low adherence to preventive measures may help to improve pre-travel counseling, to further raise awareness about the risk of malaria acquisition among travelers perceived to be at high risk for ...
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Educating a new generation of doctors to improve the health of populations in low- and middle-income countries.
... Such a re-orientation of education to population health needs has far-reaching implications and will require political commitment and engagement of multiple government sectors, of communities, and of international ...
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Global Patient Outcomes After Elective Surgery: Prospective Cohort Study in 27 Low-, Middle- and High-Income Countries
... rates in hospitals specialising in more complex surgery. After risk adjustment there were differences in postoperative out- comes between countries, but there are likely to be differences in case mix that are not fully ...
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The 5/95 gap in the indexation of psychiatric journals of low- and middle-income countries
... The search for indexed psychiatric journals in the two international databases found that nine jour- nals out of 222 were from LAMIC, none of which were from a low-income country, or from Asia or ...
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Mapping local patterns of childhood overweight and wasting in low-and middle-income countries between 2000 and 2017
... Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran. 583 Department of Population Studies, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia. 584 Research Department, Grupo de Investigación Fundovida - Fundovida IPS, Cartagena, Colombia. 585 Grupo de ...
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Cost-Effectiveness of Different Cervical Screening Strategies in Islamic Republic of Iran: A Middle-Income Country with a Low Incidence Rate of Cervical Cancer.
... In line with a recent systematic review, we found that HPV DNA testing was a more cost- effective method compared with Pap smear for cervical screening and prevention of ICC [17]. This result may encourage policy makers ...
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Research Priorities for Medical Toxicology in Low and Middle Income Countries
... Dr. Afshari’s suggestion about the need for epidemiological studies should be regarded as highly important (1). These studies should be prospective and community-based rather than hospital or poison centre based. Unless ...
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A hierarchical model for studying risk factors for childhood diarrhoea:acase–control study in a middle-income country
... had low schooling or worked outside the home; (ii) lived under environmental conditions that favoured faecal- oral transmission, either in public spaces, in the areas surrounding the home or within private spaces ...
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Assessing the efficiency of mother-to-child HIV prevention in low- and middle-income countries using data envelopment analysis
... multi- country studies in global efficient strategies for combating HIV/AIDS were ...in middle and lower income countries, is critical to fill some of the large gaps which exist in the scientific ...
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