Prospects for Mobile Health in Pakistan and Other Developing Countries

Health Expenditures in Developing Countries: Determinants and Guidelines

Background: In this paper, the health expenditures function of developing countries is estimated with a panel data model.  Methods: All credible determinants of health expenditures in these countries are probed and their coefficients are found out. Variables that affect health expenditures in developing countries are income, demographic features, social characteristics, and technological progr...

Mongolia's system-wide health reforms: lessons for other developing countries.

Mongolia is a poor country that lost 30% of its GDP when the Soviet Bloc collapsed in 1990. Its health care system had the typical weaknesses of centrally planned economies--quantity rather than quality, excessive medical specialisation, dominance of the hospital sector, weak policy and management capabilities, little community participation in decision making, and so on. This paper describes M...

Telemedicine and mobile health with integrative medicine in developing countries

Mobile Internet for Developing Countries

The growth of mobile communications has been phenomenal. At the start of the last decade there were just over 10 million mobile cellular telephone subscribers around the world. At the beginning of 2001, this figure had grown almost 70 times to over 700 million. Around one in ten people around the world now owns a mobile phone. The number of mobile subscribers will surpass the number of fixed te...

Prospects of Cervical Screening in Developing Countries

Dr. Lynette Denny: “Good-morning, I’d like to thank the Organizing Committee for inviting me to present to you today on the prospects for cervical cancer prevention in developing countries. I’d also like to acknowledge my collaborators Dr. Kuhn, Dr. Pollack, Dr. Thomas Wright, as well as AVSC International and the Bill and Melissa Gates Foundation who have funded this work. Although there are n...