Urban Slums and Children's Health in Less-Developed Countries
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
The Informal Sector in Developed and Less Developed Countries
The main goal of this study is two-fold: (1) to provide a general overview of the contributions to the literature on the informal sector, with a special focus on the Public Choice approach; and (2) to compare these contributions across two institutionally different types of countries: developed and less developed (developing and transition) countries. The paper focuses on the criteria used to d...
متن کاملTechnology cooperation between firms of developed and less - developed countries *
The paper presents a game theoretic model of technology cooperation where a developing country firm has the options of either developing an innovation alone, purchasing information or collaborating with a developed country firm. Technology cooperation changes the probability of success of commercialization. 2000 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.
متن کاملMammography screening in less developed countries
Less developed countries (LDCs) are struggling with an increasing burden of breast cancer. It is important to identify what interventions might be most effective and feasible in reducing overall breast cancer mortality in a resource constrained settings. Mammography screening (MS) utilized in developed countries cannot be equally applied to LDCs. We provide a summary of the status of existing a...
متن کاملMacroeconomic Paradigms for Less Developed Countries
"If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it." The economic history of the world is replete with recessions and depressions. From the bursting of the British South Sea Bubble and the French Mississippi Bubble in 1720 (which at least one economic historian claims delayed the industrial revolution by 50 years) to the in...
متن کاملUrban slums and primary health care.
provide substantial benefits for the dental health of six million people, many of them living in the west midlands and the north east ofEngland.4 The arguments for extending fluoridation are not as overwhelming as they were in 1956. The prevalence of dental caries has fallen in both fluoridated and non-fluoridated districts,5 and the costs of fluoridation plant designed to meet modem operating ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of World-Systems Research
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1076-156X
DOI: 10.5195/jwsr.2012.483