Abstract Cognitive aging is a highly complex, dynamic, and context-dependent process; influenced by individual community characteristics experiences across the life course. Low- middle-income countries (LMICs) are critical components of international dementia research because burden rapidly rising in LMICs, low-resource settings may have unique social economic determinants cognitive health. How...

BACKGROUND The Surgical Safety Checklist (SSC) has been shown to reduce perioperative errors and complications and its implementation is recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO). However, it is unknown how widely this intervention is used. We investigated attitudes and factors associated with use of WHO SSC in frontline medical professionals across the globe using a survey distributed...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the present study was to investigate the cause-specific patterns of unintentional injury mortality among 15-44-year-olds in various income-based country groups, and to analyze which specific causes contribute the most to the unintentional injury mortality in each country group. MATERIALS AND METHODS Cross-sectional data on the five most common causes of unintentional inj...

OBJECTIVE To systematically review the research conducted on prevalence of frailty and prefrailty among community-dwelling older adults in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) and to estimate the pooled prevalence of frailty and prefrailty in community-dwelling older adults in LMICs. DESIGN Systematic review and meta-analysis. PROSPERO registration number is CRD42016036083. DATA S...

A global health phenomenon, in particular, there is a significant difference between spending developed and developing countries. This study focuses on modeling expenditures short-term long-term schemes three categories of countries: low-income countries, moderate-income, high income from 2000 to 2019. The expenditure scheme analyzed using the panel data regression approach as model determinant...

Background The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) availed opportunities for scaling up service coverage but called for stringent monitoring and evaluation (M&E;) focusing mainly on MDG related programs. The Sustainable Development Goals 3 (SDGs) and the universal health coverage (UHC) agenda present a broader scope and require more ...

OBJECTIVES To calculate cigarette affordability for a number of countries using different techniques and data, to investigate trends since 1990 and to assess the appropriateness of different measures of affordability. DESIGN Two existing measures were specified. Relative income price (RIP) uses per capita gross domestic product (GDP) as the measure of income, while "minutes of labour" is base...