Developing Countries
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Acute malnutrition is common in Malawian patients with a Wilms tumour: A role for peanut butter.

13 Dec 2009 BACKGROUND: Children with cancer in resource limited countries are often malnourished at diagnosis. Acute malnutrition is associated with more infectious complications and an increased risk of morbidity and mortality in major surgery. METHODS: All ... Read more...

Operational research in low-income countries: what, why, and how?

30 Oct 2009 Operational research is increasingly being discussed at institutional meetings, donor forums, and scientific conferences, but limited published information exists on its role from a disease-control and programme perspective. We suggest a definition ... Read more...

Oral rotavirus vaccines: how well will they work where they are needed most?

30 Oct 2009 Rotavirus vaccines hold promise to decrease the burden of severe diarrhea in the poorest countries, where 85% of deaths due to rotavirus occur. However, the potency of live oral vaccines is lower in these challenging settings than in middle- and ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Developing Countries'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Acute malnutrition is common in Malawian patients with a Wilms tumour: A role for peanut butter. 13 Dec 2009
• Operational research in low-income countries: what, why, and how? 30 Oct 2009
• Oral rotavirus vaccines: how well will they work where they are needed most? 30 Oct 2009
• Rotavirus vaccination: cost-effectiveness and impact on child mortality in developing countries. 30 Oct 2009
• Economic costs of rotavirus gastroenteritis and cost-effectiveness of vaccination in developing countries. 30 Oct 2009
• "Cholera forcing". The myth of the good epidemic and the coming of good water. 30 Oct 2009
• A global perspective on the dissemination of mental health research. 29 Oct 2009
• Health and wealth in the Americas. 29 Oct 2009
• The suffering of physicians. 22 Oct 2009
• Vaccines and the world of child health. 22 Oct 2009
• [Protein rich ready-to-use food to undernourished children] 20 Oct 2009
• [Demographic changes in developing countries] 20 Oct 2009
• Record number of infants immunised but 24 million in poor nations not being reached, says report. 19 Oct 2009
• Retroscpective. Norman Ernest Borlaug (1914-2009). 14 Oct 2009
• Poor nations are told to scale up strategies to prevent and treat diarrhoea in children. 12 Oct 2009
• WHO will start delivering H1N1 vaccine to 100 poorer nations in November. 12 Oct 2009
• Safety and efficacy of pacemaker reuse in underdeveloped nations: a case series. 11 Oct 2009
• Global health initiatives and country health systems. 8 Oct 2009
• [Shattered lives] 6 Oct 2009
• Life expectancy differs by 30 years between richest and poorest countries, report shows. 5 Oct 2009

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Technical information about 'Developing Countries'

Definition: Countries in the process of change directed toward economic growth, that is, an increase in production, per capita consumption, and income. The process of economic growth involves better utilization of natural and human resources, which results in a change in the social, political, and economic structures.

Descriptor UI: D003906

Alternative terms: Developing Countries; Countries, Developing; Country, Developing; Developing Country; Under-Developed Countries; Countries, Under-Developed; Country, Under-Developed; Under Developed Countries; Under-Developed Country; Third-World Countries; Countries, Third-World; Country, Third-World; Third World Countries; Third-World Country; Developing Nations; Developing Nation; Nation, Developing; Nations, Developing; Under-Developed Nations; Nation, Under-Developed; Nations, Under-Developed; Under Developed Nations; Under-Developed Nation; Third-World Nations; Nation, Third-World; Nations, Third-World; Third World Nations; Third-World Nation; Less-Developed Countries; Countries, Less-Developed; Country, Less-Developed; Less Developed Countries; Less-Developed Country; Less-Developed Nations; Less Developed Nations; Less-Developed Nation; Nation, Less-Developed; Nations, Less-Developed;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; statistics & numerical data;

Tree Number: I01.615.500.300;

History Note: 71

Technical Notes: do not confuse with DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; IM; specify country or countries if relevant