We conducted economic experiments to measure risk, time, prosocial preferences and social proximity to partners amongst the general population of youth in a low-income high-risk setting and linked these measures to outcomes of risky sexual behaviour measured 12 months later. We find important differen...
A federal program assisting low-income households with energy bills, weatherization, and crisis support. Who qualifies? Households below a certain income threshold, often prioritizing seniors, young children, and people with disabilities. What does it cover? Heating, cooling, energy crisis interventions...
Intensive Care Unit LMIC: Low or Middle Income Country NH: Narayana Hrudayalaya’s RSBY: Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (Hindi for National Health Insurance Program, India).References Prahalad CK: The fortune at the bottom of the pyramid: Eradicating poverty through profits (Paperback Edition)...
39,40 Therefore, although recommendations on limiting sitting time have emerged in recent public health guidelines, the specific quantitative threshold for sitting time still warrants further study.41 When stratified by country income levels, we observed a more pronounced association in LMICs and LICs ...
in 201160. Participants were between the ages of 18 and 60 and a parent of a child or children between the ages of 2 and 18 years. Participants had a household income lower than the poverty threshold as described by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (as shown in Table1...
The expansion of childhood vaccination programs in low and middle income countries has been a substantial public health success story. Indicators of the performance of intervention programmes such as coverage levels and numbers covered are typically measured through national statistics or at the scale of...
Several studies suggest that overall adverse health impacts of winter cold in high-income countries may be decreasing in recent decades due to better housing and improved health care33,34. However, our observation of a strong cold effect on hypertension in Ontario showed that adverse effect of col...
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There is an unbalanced distribution of resources and health care facilities in different geographic regions, not only when comparing high-income to low/middle-income countries but also within countries (e.g., rural vs. urban areas). Early age of onset is helpful for identifying patients who are...
health provider per 100,000 people (compared to more than 50 in HICs), and almost all mental health services in low-income countries are provided in hospitals in large cities, with virtually no care available in rural areas [38,39,40]. Given the dearth of mental health specialists, ...