Effectiveness of strategies to improve health-care provider practices in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review

AK Rowe, SY Rowe, DH Peters, KA Holloway… - The Lancet Global …, 2018 - thelancet.com
… For this systematic review we searched 52 electronic databases for published studies
and 58 document inventories for unpublished studies from the 1960s to 2016. Eligible study …

Measurement of social capital in relation to health in low and middle income countries (LMIC): a systematic review

TC Agampodi, SB Agampodi, N Glozier… - Social science & …, 2015 - Elsevier
… are based upon high income countries. We conducted this systematic review to identify the
methods used to measure social capital in low and middle-income countries and to evaluate …

Psychological treatments for the world: lessons from low-and middle-income countries

DR Singla, BA Kohrt, LK Murray… - Annual review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
… low- and middle-income countries. This systematic review synthesizes the implementation
… delivered by nonspecialist providers in low- and middle-income countries. In total, 27 trials …

Poverty and disability in low-and middle-income countries: A systematic review

LM Banks, H Kuper, S Polack - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
… This systematic review explores the relationship between disability and poverty, including
whether characteristics such as impairment type, gender or study location modify this …

A systematic review of radiotherapy capacity in low-and middle-income countries

S Grover, MJ Xu, A Yeager, L Rosman… - Frontiers in …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
… This systematic review identifies major challenges to delivering RT in these regions, including
lack of physical resources, lack of human personnel, and lack of data. DIRAC reports and …

Suicide and poverty in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review

V Iemmi, J Bantjes, E Coast, K Channer… - The Lancet …, 2016 - thelancet.com
… poverty in low-income and middle-income countries is scarce. We did a systematic review
to … and economic poverty in low-income and middle-income countries. We included studies …

The burden and costs of chronic diseases in low-income and middle-income countries

DO Abegunde, CD Mathers, T Adam, M Ortegon… - The Lancet, 2007 - thelancet.com
This paper estimates the disease burden and loss of economic output associated with
chronic diseases—mainly cardiovascular diseases, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases, and …

Social networks and health: a systematic review of sociocentric network studies in low-and middle-income countries

JM Perkins, SV Subramanian, NA Christakis - Social science & medicine, 2015 - Elsevier
… This systematic review summarizes the relatively small body of work on social networks
and health derived from sociocentric network studies conducted in LMICs. Logistically, it …

Comparative performance of private and public healthcare systems in low-and middle-income countries: a systematic review

S Basu, J Andrews, S Kishore, R Panjabi… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
… Studies evaluated in this systematic review do not support the claim that the private sector
is usually more efficient, accountable, or medically effective than the public sector; however, …

Quality of private and public ambulatory health care in low and middle income countries: systematic review of comparative studies

S Berendes, P Heywood, S Oliver, P Garner - PLoS medicine, 2011 - journals.plos.org
… improve health outcomes in low and middle income countries. These findings also indicate
… in this review is worrying, and calls for the governments of low and middle income countries …