PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Fine particulate matter (PM) poses a public health risk, disproportionately impacting low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). In Peru, where ambient concentrations in urban areas significantly exceed the World Health Organization...
Disparity in access to trustworthy health information between high-income and low-income settings remains stark and contributes to global health inequity. The volume of new clinical practice guidelines a healthcare provider needs to digest to deliver...
Maternal lipid levels change dynamically during gestation to support normal fetal growth. To obtain a detailed footprint of these changes and their differences in pregnancies with preterm or small-for-gestational-age (SGA) neonates, we analyzed 641 l...
BACKGROUND: Childhood infectious diseases and related symptoms, such as fever, cough, and diarrhea among children constitute the leading cause of death in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). We examined the environmental predictors of double and...
UNLABELLED: Prognostic scores such as the Pediatric Index of Mortality (PIM-3) are widely used to estimate mortality risk in PICUs, yet their performance in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) remains uncertain. We aimed to evaluate the predicti...
A new era in global health assistance requires a focus on efficiently using limited and declining donor funds. This shift requires better evaluation methods to allocate resources effectively. Most evaluations in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Oct 14, 2025
The digital revolution has ushered in many societal and economic benefits. Yet access to digital technologies such as mobile phones and internet remains highly unequal, especially by gender in the context of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). ...
Cost overruns are common on long-term construction projects. This is mostly because of inaccurate early estimates and unexpected changes in the economy and finances. In Egypt, the costs of materials like steel, cement, bricks, sand, and aggregates ma...
BACKGROUND: A multidisciplinary team comprising providers from several specialties is needed for comprehensive cleft care. Although multidisciplinary cleft teams may be readily available in high-income countries, in low- and middle-income countries (...
Household surveys have been the foundation for poverty measurement in developing countries for the past half-century, but the spatial and temporal gaps in these survey data often limit how well anti-poverty programs can be targeted, monitored, or eva...
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