Sentences with phrase «from middle income countries»

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

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«It will be the biggest transfer of wealth from low - and middle - income people to wealthy people in our country.

Selected from over 500 ideas submitted by healthcare experts around the world (including many from low and middle - income countries), these innovations could save countless lives over the years.

The recent decline in China's GDP to below 7 percent from an average of 10 percent from 1980 to 2010 has some worried that the country is on the verge of hitting the middle - income trap, and a dangerous downward growth streak is ahead.

We are bringing together fiscal policy, development, and health leaders from around the globe, including Ministers of Finance, to address the enormous and growing health and economic burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in lower and middle income countries (LMICs).

Now that China has made the transition from a developing to a middle - income country, its growth will be driven by technology, consumer demand and the services sector.

With lead investment from Puffin Partners, the Ontario, Canada - based company is taking lifesaving blood - testing technology to low - and middle - income countries.

Rising incomes within the middle class will play a major role in boosting China's consumer economy from $ 4.2 trillion last year to $ 6.5 trillion by 2020, he noted, all despite the country's oft - discussed slowing GDP.

The truth from the ground, based on the extensive footwork due diligence I conduct plus emails from readers around the country reporting similar observations, is that the inventory of home listings of soaring (the published inventory reports by design have 2 - 3 month lag), prices are dropping quickly, the time it takes to sell a home is increasing significantly and, most important, the potential pool of middle class home buyers no longer have an income level that will support the size of mortgage it takes to «buy» a home.

Although Step 10 of the UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiatives requires that accredited maternity units provide post-natal breastfeeding support groups, the availability and uptake of these services remains unclear.40 The effectiveness of peer - support for long - term breastfeeding success has been well documented in middle - income countries, 35,41 and a systematic review has emphasized the importance of skilled post-natal breastfeeding support in the UK.39 However Graffy et al. 40 concluded from a randomized controlled trial of support provided by volunteer breastfeeding counsellors that although such support was rated by mothers as helpful, volunteer support was not effective at increasing breastfeeding duration, perhaps owing to mothers not actively taking up such support.

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.

A Systematic Mapping of Barriers in Low and Middle Income Countries from the Provider Perspective».

Infant - feeding patterns and cardiovascular risk factors in young adulthood: data from five cohorts in low - and middle - income countries.

A review of the effects of emergency obstetric referral interventions, compared to no intervention, included 19 studies from low - and middle - income countries (Hussein 2012).

In Brazil, the length of breastfeeding increased dramatically from 2.5 months in 1974 - 75 (one of the shortest in any low - or middle - income country) to 14 months in 2006 - 07 due to a combination of policy, health service, civil society, and mass media initiatives.

Almost all growth in the foreseeable future in sales of standard milk formula (infants < 6 months) will be in low - income and middle - income countries, where consumption is currently low,» [1] explains Series author Dr Nigel Rollins from the Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health at WHO, Geneva.

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.

Mr. Speaker, consistent with Government's objective of ensuring fiscal consolidation without compromising growth as well as our resolve to consolidate our LMIC status and move towards a Middle Income country, and eventually wean ourselves from donor dependency, the need to significantly improve our domestic resource mobilisation has become imperative.

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.

It noted that «With Ghana's graduation to a middle - income country, and the prospects of sustainable economic growth, Denmark is gradually transitioning from development cooperation to trade cooperation in line with the visions by the Government of Ghana,» the Embassy said.

«Half of all children killed or seriously injured on the roads in England come from deprived areas and this is reflected in the fact that 90 per cent of those killed globally are from low and middle income countries.»

He pointed out that, the President John Kufuor - led NPP, transformed the economy from Highly Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) in 2001, to lower middle income country in 2008, after the NDC had run down the eCountry (HIPC) in 2001, to lower middle income country in 2008, after the NDC had run down the ecountry in 2008, after the NDC had run down the economy.

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.

And there is very strong support from middle - income countries — China, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico.

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.

According to the study, countries with coastal borders — 192 in all — discharge plastic into the world's oceans with the largest quantities estimated to come from a relatively small number of middle - income, rapidly developing countries.

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.

Young children in six low - and middle - income countries prefer junk food and sugar sweetened beverages over traditional and home cooked meals, according to a new study from the University of Maryland School of Public Health.

«Previous research, and many dietary guidelines in North America and Europe recommended daily intake of these foods ranging from 400 to 800 grams per day, but this is unaffordable for many people in low to middle - income countries,» he explained.

The research team arrived at these conclusions after reviewing data from a total of 88 studies covering close to twenty years between 1990 and 2013 and involving almost 56,000 children with HIV, living in low and middle - income countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Asia.

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.

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 researchers analyzed data from nationally representative samples of children under three years of age taken from 121 Demographic and Health surveys done in 36 low - and middle - income countries between 1990 and 2011.

«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.

They reviewed data from 80 trials involving 205,401 children aged six months to twelve years, mostly in low and middle income countries.

He and fellow researchers analyzed what lead exposure from the soil and water at toxic sites in 31 low - and middle - income countries could mean for the long - term health of infants and toddlers living in the surrounding communities.

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).

The world now spends $ 16.8 billion each year on HIV / AIDS, with an increasing amount of the investment — more than 50 % — coming from low - and middle - income countries.

Lead author Dr Nadja van Ginneken, who completed the research at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine's Centre for Global Mental Health with funding from the Wellcome Trust Clinical PhD programme, said: «Many low - and middle - income countries have started to train primary care staff, and in particular lay and other community - based health workers, to deliver mental health care.

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.

Last year, roughly $ 19 billion was spent to combat HIV / AIDS in low - and middle - income countries, which are hardest hit by the epidemic, and just over half that money came from the countries» own budgets.

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.

Working with internationally - renowned scientists and healthcare professionals, we run events at the Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton, a short distance from the historic city of Cambridge and home to the world - famous Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and EMBL - European Bioinformatics Institute; and overseas in low - and middle - income countries.

This program directed by Dr. Edward L. Murphy, Senior Investigator at BSRI and professor at UCSF, provides clinical and epidemiologic research training to blood bank professionals from low and middle income countries in a critical effort to provide safe and sustainable blood supplies internationally.

The IOMP has, again this year, a program of Travel Awards to assist Medical Physicists from Low and Middle Income countries to attend the 2018 World Congress!

In low - and middle - income countries, meanwhile, awareness increased only slightly, from 32 percent to 38 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.

However, carbohydrate consumption in low - income and middle - income countries is mainly from refined sources.»