… We aimed to examine time trends and sociodemographic inequalities in the prevalence of
… in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) that investigated trends in adolescent …

… We hypothesised that CRF declined since 1981, with the rate of decline possibly slowing
over time, and that temporal trends in income inequality would be inversely associated with …

… unobserved country differences and global time trends. The covariates ( Embedded Image
… Then using a stepwise process, we identified the most parsimonious set of country and time …

… of residence in low and middle-income countries (LMICS), [4,5,6… any multicountry analyses
of time trends in child health and … do not recommend them as the basis of time trend analyses. …

… increased more in middle-income countries (low income, 0·66%; middle income, 0·98 %), …
in lowincome countries (low income, 0·07%/year; middle income, 0·04 %/year). Time trends …

… with a time-trend analysis, to provide a rigorous characterisation of the associations
between unemployment, public health-care spending, universal health coverage, income, and …

… to estimate the treatment gap and its time trends in LMICs. … low- and low-middle-income
countries from 1980 onwards. We … -regression analyses to determine time trends for all countries …

… Temporal trends in inequalities Time-trend analyses were conducted for a subset of eight
low-income study countries that had previously been identified as having the greatest within-…

… an increasing trend throughout the study period resulting in a slope coefficient of the trend
analysis … transformations, we inferred that the seasonal time series could be explained by the …

… medicines was approximately six times higher in HICs than in … medicines was at least three
times higher in HICs than in … within regions and income groups were examined over time, …