Tropical medicine should become specialty of "health in developing countries"

Dentistry in Japan should become a specialty of medicine with dentists educated as oral physicians.

In Japan, the population of elderly individuals (those sixty-five years of age and older) will increase to over 30 percent of the total population by 2030. The elderly commonly have chronic diseases that result in individuals being biologically and pharmacologically compromised. Dentists must have a reliable knowledge of basic clinical medicine for these individuals to be safely and effectively...

Telemedicine and mobile health with integrative medicine in 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...

Clinical immunology as a new specialty in public health: a model for developing countries.

“The extraordinary, rapid development of immunology, with its increasing significance in almost all other branches of the medical sciences, has created new needs with respect to the teaching of this subject in the medical curriculum. ’ ’ This initial paragraph of a 1967 WHO technical report (No. 358) recognized the urgent need to develop medical school teaching programs in immunology. The repor...

Trends in nuclear medicine in developing countries.

This article describes trends in nuclear medicine in the developing world as noted by nuclear medicine professionals at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The trends identified are based on data gathered from several sources, including information gathered through a database maintained by the IAEA; evaluation of country program frameworks of various IAEA Member States; personal inte...