Developing countries and services

Hearing aids and services for developing countries.

Prehospital trauma care services in developing countries

Trauma is a leading cause of death and disability especially amongst young people. Prehospital trauma care service remains a dynamic field of medicine for care of trauma patients. The goal of prehospital emergency care system should be to match the needs of the patients to the available resources so that optimal, prompt and cost-effective care can be offered. For bridging the wide gap between t...

Pathology services in developing countries: a challenge.

T practice of pathology in the developing world— where the majority of the earth’s population lives— presents special challenges for the Western-trained physician accustomed to the high standard of living, long life expectancy, and predictable disease patterns that are prevalent in the developed world. This health care gap will inevitably widen even further as sophistication of technology in ou...

Gender and use of cataract surgical services in developing countries.

OBJECTIVE To determine, from the existing literature, cataract surgical coverage rates by sex and the proportion of cataract blindness that could be eliminated if women and men had equal access to cataract surgical services. METHOD Methodologically sound population-based cataract surveys from developing countries were identified through a literature search. Cataract surgical coverage rates we...

Rating maternal and neonatal health services in developing countries.

OBJECTIVE To assess maternal and neonatal health services in 49 developing countries. METHODS The services were rated on a scale of 0 to 100 by 10 - 25 experts in each country. The ratings covered emergency and routine services, including family planning, at health centres and district hospitals, access to these services for both rural and urban women, the likelihood that women would receive ...