Sentences with phrase «from high income countries»

Age of start of depression was nearly 2 years sooner in low income countries and the level of difficulty an individual had in areas of their life was more evident in individuals coming from high income countries.

Not exact matches

Because lower consumption discourages businesses from building new factories or otherwise expanding production, higher savings often come with lower investment, and so countries with highly unequal income distribution tend to run large trade surpluses.

As we showed last year, average retirement income in the United States is among the highest in the world — higher than all Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries other than Luxembourg (more recent estimates from Andrew Biggs find that Norway also has higher income).

State income tax rates in the «Land of 10,000 Lakes» are among the highest in the nation, ranging from 5.35 % to 9.85 %, the fourth - highest top rate in the country.

The evidence from other countries is that fintech can enable higher savings for low - income individuals, access to capital for cash - starved small businesses, and better access to all financial services for underserved segments of the population.

We have to consider factors like clubs matchday income, what country a club is from, their success on the field and its impact on the market value, social presence worldwide, high profile kit deals and shirt sponsorship, total yearly revenue and the debt situation of the club.

• In most countries, fathers who take leave tend to be from more advantaged backgrounds (that is, to be better educated, native - born and married, and to work full - time and have high incomes).

Some 62 % of the women were from high - income countries, 34 % from middle income countries and 4 % from low - income countries

Lay support has been associated with improved breastfeeding practices, but studies of programs that engage men in breastfeeding support have shown mixed results and most are from high - income countries.

Miller and colleagues [34] use the term «too much, too soon» to refer to the over-medicalization of birth following the rapid increase in the use of hospital as the place of birth in high - and middle - income countries, which they claim, might offset recent gains from improvements in maternal and perinatal health.

Most of the data included in this review are observational, and are from both high - income and resource - constrained countries

According to The Lancet, «Losses [from not breastfeeding] for high - income countries are $ 231 · 4 billion, or 0 · 53 % of their GNI.»

The 73 studies were published / conducted between 1979 and 2016 and show increases over time both in number of studies (five studies are dated before 1990, 10 between 1990 and 1999, 40 between 2000 and 2011, and 18 are dated between 2012 and 2016), and range of country settings (the seven studies with dates before 1994 were all undertaken in high - income countries, and the eight studies from low - / low - middle income countries were published in 2000 or later).

These 28 studies include 16 of the 20 USA studies, with four other studies from high - income countries (Jones 1985; Mejdoubi 2014; Quinlivan 2003; Wen 2011), three of the studies from Brazil (Barros 1994; Coutinho 2005; Vitolo 2005), three of the studies from low - middle income countries (Ochola 2013; Sikander 2015; Yotebieng 2015), and the two studies from low - income countries.

That is why we must insist on a radical plan for fair tax which we developed in opposition through the Tax Commission: lifting low earners out of tax; shifting the tax base from income to wealth, especially high priced property; and cracking down hard on the shocking tax dodging culture - personal and corporate - which disfigures our country.

When devising taxation schemes, the people at the lower end of the income bracket in our country should be shielded from a burden that's too high.

If you compare the United States, with a relatively low top rate to countries with higher top rates (including the US prior to 1980), the US gets more of its revenue from high income earners.

And given the low middle income level of the country, Ghanaians will have more preference for imports from China and that may have accounted for high volumes,» she said.

A report from the Tax Foundation released on Wednesday found 12.6 percent of New Yorkers» income were paid to state and local taxes in 2011, the highest percentage in the country.

Seven studies were included in the review that presents findings from 12,760 people in high - income countries including the UK, Australia and New Zealand.

Charles Kennedy: Well what we're saying to people is that if you don't invest in the future of the country, and if you pull up the ladder of opportunity that people like you and me have benefited from, and deny them the chance to go to university, then their very capacity to get in to a higher income bracket in later life, is going to be diminished.

To address this, researchers looked at hospital records — from 66 low, middle and high income countries — for more than 12,000 patients undergoing surgery on the digestive system.

But, according to a report from the Paris - based charity Médicins du Monde, the generic drug would be available to 60 mostly low - income countries, and not to many middle - income countries with high HCV burdens.

Over the past 70 years, he explains, only 15 countries have managed to climb from middle - to high - income status, among them South Korea and Taiwan.

Rao and her colleagues reached their conclusions after analysing 27 studies from 10 high - income countries, mainly the US, comparing price data for healthy versus unhealthy ingredients and diets.

The increase in longevity, especially in high - income countries (HICs), has been largely due to the decline in deaths from cardiovascular disease (stroke and ischaemic heart disease), mainly because of simple, cost - effective strategies to reduce tobacco use and high blood pressure, and improved coverage and effectiveness of health interventions.

Studies from several high - income countries have shown that early menarche is also associated with various psychosocial factors including delinquency, substance use, and depression — all of which have sexual and reproductive health implications.

Using international data primarily from 2013 - 16, the researchers compared the U.S. with 10 other high - income countries — the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Australia, Japan, Sweden, France, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Switzerland — on approximately 100 metrics that underpin healthcare spending.

That will become especially important as data comes in from other parts of the world — such as developing countries where the relative growth in dementia cases is predicted to exceed that of high - income nations.

If you are a male immigrant and marry a woman from a country other than your own, you increase your chances of a good job and a high income.

It Begins at Ten: How Gender Expectations Shape Early Adolescence Around the World is the most comprehensive analysis to date — and the first to draw equally from high -, low - and middle - income countries — of how children on the cusp of adolescence perceive growing up as a boy or girl.

Although the majority of childhood pneumococcal deaths occur in Africa, evidence of the potential impact of pneumococcal vaccines in routine use has largely been drawn from high - income countries.

A massive investigation published in Nature shows that contrary to popular belief, a majority of papers in suspected biomedical predatory journals (57 percent) are from high or upper middle income countries, with many coming from prestigious institutions.

«The high disease burden, particularly amongst young and elderly populations in poor to middle income countries, could potentially be addressed by further investment in research,» says Dr Stuart Clarke from the University of Southampton's Faculty of Medicine, who is leading the study.

For instance, average inpatient days for blood cancers varied from 8 in France to 48 in Greece; and the average healthcare costs in Finland were nearly twice as high as in Belgium ($ 18014 vs $ 9596), despite both countries having similar national income per capita.

Below is one of the figures from the draft summary that sparked debate; it shows that emissions from lower - middle income countries (LMCs) and upper - middle income countries (UMCs) are rising faster than emissions from high - income countries (HICs).

Foreign students are less likely to remain in the US if they are from countries with higher average income levels.»

On average, 87 % of those from low - income countries, 70 % of those from high - income countries, and 67 % of those from middle - income countries told SED that they intended to live in the United States «after graduation,» the authors write.

The use of bone marrow increased from 20 percent in countries with low and low - middle incomes to 50 percent with high - middle incomes to 64 percent with high incomes.

«Incidence and deaths from major cardiovascular diseases have decreased in high - income countries since the 1980s.

Researchers from the Collaborative Group on Epidemiological Studies on Endometrial Cancer estimate that in the past 50 years (1965 - 2014) about 400000 cases of endometrial cancer have been prevented by oral contraceptive use in high - income countries, including about 200000 in the last decade (2005 - 2014).

In high - income countries, 10 years of oral contraceptive use reduces the risk of developing endometrial cancer before age 75 from 2.3 to 1.3 cases per 100 users.

For example, substantial commitments to reduce carbon emissions from the US and China, Europe, and a host of high income countries form the basis of negotiations, while ten global cities representing 58 million people have drawn up ambitious plans to tackle climate change.

Our study, along with prior studies, supports the notion that «cognitive reserve» resulting from early - life and lifelong education and cognitive stimulation may be a potent strategy for the primary prevention of dementia in both high - and low - income countries around the world.21 However, it should be noted that the relationships among education, brain biology, and cognitive function are complex and likely multidirectional; for instance, a number of recent population - based studies have shown genetic links with level of educational attainment, 22,23 and with the risk for cognitive decline in later life.24 Higher levels of educational attainment are also associated with health behaviors (eg, physical activity, diet, and smoking), more cognitively - complex occupations, and better access to health care, all of which may play a role in decreasing lifetime dementia risk.

In the long run, overcoming the challenge of latent TB infection will require substantial investments in TB research by foundations and by the U.S. and other governments from high - and middle - income countries.

The majority of research investment comes from high - income countries, whereas the highest burden of infectious disease is in the developing world.

A new study has found that between 2000 and 2015 global consumption of antibiotics jumped 65 percent.The data from 76 countries found that while antibiotic use soared in lower income countries, consumption in high - income countries was static but still considerably higher per capita than LIMCs.

During that time, as more people in high - income countries became aware of high blood pressure, treatment rates rose from 44.5 percent to 55.6 percent, and control of the condition increased from nearly 18 percent to 28 percent.

This study of 2010 data from 90 countries found that 31 percent of adults worldwide (1.39 billion) had high blood pressure, and that about 75 percent of them were in low - and middle - income countries.

The authors state, ``... most participants from low - income and middle - income countries consumed a very high carbohydrate diet (at least 60 % of energy), especially from refined sources (such as white rice and white bread).»