Management of Burn Injuries in the Wilderness: Lessons from Low-Resource Settings

Urinary Tract Injuries in Low-Resource Settings

Integrating HIV and hypertension management in low-resource settings: Lessons from Malawi

Pragna Patel and colleagues describe the implementation of a hypertension management model for HIV-infected people in Malawi.

The Continued Utility and Viability of Dakin’s Solution in Both High- and Low-resource Settings

Healthcare is expensive and often inaccessible to many. As a result, surgeons must consider simple, less expensiveinterventions when possible. For wound care, an older but quite effective cleaning agent is Dakin’s solution (0.5%sodium hypochlorite), an easily made mixture of 100 milliliters (ml) bleach with 8 teaspoons (tsp) baking soda into agallon of clean water or 25 ml ble...

Challenges for the management of hypertension in low-resource settings.

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) account for one third of the global mortality and one tenth of the global disease burden; however, if rates of hypertension, a cardiovascular risk factor, were controlled, the reduction of the CVD burden would follow. One of the major constraints for controlling hypertension is the limitation of resources for health care, particularly in low- and middle-income coun...

Cardiovascular disease prevention in low resource settings: lessons from the Heartfile experience in Pakistan.

This paper outlines activities of the Heartfile Program in Pakistan (http://heartfile.org). The program focuses on cardiovascular disease prevention and health promotion, and includes several initiatives that encompass building policy, reorienting health services, and developing community interventions that utilize the print and electronic media and outreach at the grass-root level to incorpora...