Low-Income Settings
Consent and assent in paediatric research in low-income settings
... in low-income settings, researchers and ethics committees should review the cut- off age of consent for a given study to ensure that it is cul- turally and context specific and bears a reasonable ...
10
A complex intervention to improve implementation of World Health Organization guidelines for diagnosis of severe illness in low-income settings: a quasi-experimental study from Uganda
... high-income settings, available data suggest that a large percentage of death and disability in low- income settings is the result of acute, severe illness [19, ...HIV-burden ...
11
Immediate fluid management of children with severe febrile illness and signs of impaired circulation in low-income settings: a contextualised systematic review
... In low-income settings, the WHO has speci fi c guidelines where there are no intensive care facilities, called the Emergency Triage Assessment and Treatment (ETAT) ...
9
How should assent to research be sought in low income settings? Perspectives from parents and children in Southern Malawi
... in low income set- tings where responsibilities and living conditions may vary from those in middle and upper income contexts ...many low income settings, including Malawi, ...
13
High Genomic Diversity and Heterogenous Origins of Pathogenic and Antibiotic-Resistant Escherichia coli in Household Settings Represent a Challenge to Reducing Transmission in Low-Income Settings
... potential and acquired antibiotic resistance of environmental strains reaffirm the need for interventions that effectively reduce E. coli across different environmental reservoirs. This represents a major challenge, as ...
17
Feminization of the medical workforce in low-income settings; findings from surveys in three African capital cities
... As we studied physicians from only three cities, it is difficult to generalize these findings to rural areas that are known to be often shunned by female physicians [11]. As general practice is not a specialty in all the ...
8
Legal implications of data sharing in biobanking research in low-income settings: The Nigerian experience
... a low-income setting, focusing on the regulatory instruments that apply directly or tangentially to data sharing and biobank ...in low- income settings such as ...
5
The complex remuneration of human resources for health in low-income settings: policy implications and a research agenda for designing effective financial incentives
... overall income of health workers depends on various and interacting factors beyond the ones that are usually considered, such as individual education and type of posting, the design of financial incentives becomes ...
9
Immediate fluid management of children with severe febrile illness and signs of impaired circulation in low-income settings: a contextualised systematic review
... In low-income settings, the WHO has speci fi c guidelines where there are no intensive care facilities, called the Emergency Triage Assessment and Treatment (ETAT) ...
8
Evaluating vaccination strategies for reducing infant respiratory syncytial virus infection in low income settings
... a low-income setting in order to realisti- cally describe and understand the transmission chain leading to RSV infant infection, which causes most of RSV-associated serious ...
12
Evaluating vaccination strategies for reducing infant respiratory syncytial virus infection in low-income settings
... Individual-based transmission models of infectious dis- eases represent a powerful tool to evaluate and optimize interventions aimed at controlling human infectious dis- eases [16-19]. The need for detailed ...
11
Access to primary health care for acute vascular events in rural low income settings: a mixed methods study
... in low-income and middle-income countries need to be strengthened to develop reliable individual records that enable assessment and management of risks of individ- uals under their care ...
7
Assessment of pre-hospital emergency medical services in low-income settings using a health systems approach
... Emergency medical services (EMS) is defined as the system that organizes all aspects of care provided to patients in the pre-hospital or out-of-hospital environment. Hence, EMS is a critical component of the health ...
10
Hyponatremia in patients hospitalized with heart failure: a condition often overlooked in low-income settings
... high-income settings regarding prevalence and characteristics of hyponatremia in patients with HF, there is a prominent scarcity of data in developing countries, particularly in resource-limited sub- ...
7
Distinct Salmonella Enteritidis lineages associated with enterocolitis in high-income settings and invasive disease in low-income settings.
... aligned to Salmonella Enteritidis reference genome P125109 using a pipeline 695. developed in-house at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (WTSI)[r] ...
38
Effect of a multi-faceted quality improvement intervention on inappropriate antibiotic use in children with non-bloody diarrhoea admitted to district hospitals in Kenya
... in low-income settings are self-limiting and are caused by pathogens not susceptible ...in low income countries which bear a bigger burden of infectious diseases ...in ...
10
Prevalence and determinants of comprehensive eye care in a group of patients with diabetes: a cross sectional study in a sub Saharan African setting
... on low-to-medium income settings [1], where it is under-diagnosed, under-investigated, and under-treated ...with low availability of investigation tests and essential medicines for the ...
5
Survival, morbidity, growth and developmental delay for babies born preterm in low and middle income countries - a systematic review of outcomes measured
... community settings in low income settings such as Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania and Guate- mala [6,8,28,42,43], studies originating from bigger teaching hospitals such as those from Bra- zil, ...
20
Chest radiograph reading panel performance in a Bangladesh pneumococcal vaccine effectiveness study
... In the Pneumonia Aetiology Research for Child Health (PERCH), a case–control child pneu- monia aetiology study from seven low-income settings, primary readers agreed on the presence or[r] ...
10
Five year single centre experience of carcinoma of the oesophagus from Blantyre, Malawi
... in low-income settings, where the disease often presents too late for therapeutic intervention, with only 13% of patients in sub-Saharan Africa being surgical candidates and far fewer being able to ...
6