The open access financial model hinders the growth of medical physics research in low‐ and middle‐income countries

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Biplab Sarkar ◽  
Yi‐Xiang Wang ◽  
Jing Cai
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Medical Physics ◽  
Financial Model ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
Low And Middle Income

scholarly journals Obesities: A New Peer-Reviewed Open-Access Interdisciplinary Journal Fostering Research on Multifactorial Obesity and Associated Cardiometabolic Disorders

Obesities ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-28
Author(s):  
Bruno Guigas
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
Obesity Prevalence ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
The Past ◽  
Urban Transition ◽  
Cardiometabolic Disorders ◽  
Interdisciplinary Journal ◽  
Low And Middle Income

Obesity prevalence has increased continuously over the past 50 years, a dramatic worldwide expansion not only limited to industrialized countries but also observed in a large number of low- and middle-income countries experiencing rapid rural–urban transition [...]

scholarly journals Short Take: Lowering the Access Barriers to Ethnographic Methodology

Field Methods ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1525822X2097109
Author(s):  
Tony V Pham
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Software Tools ◽  
Knowledge Generation ◽  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
Access Barriers ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
Ethnographic Methodology ◽  
Low And Middle Income

Researchers based in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) often cannot access conventional but high-priced ethnographic tools. I developed a low-cost methodology as an exercise in meeting the needs of both LMIC-based researchers and the broader qualitative community. As demonstrated in this proof of concept, ethnographic researchers should strive for a suite of open access software tools and common and affordable hardware to reduce inequities in knowledge generation and dissemination.

scholarly journals A pilot course of intensive training in radiation biology and physics for oncologists in sub-Saharan Africa.

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (suppl) ◽  
pp. 24-24
Author(s):  
Cullen M. Taniguchi ◽  
Anuja Jhingran ◽  
Shane Richard Stecklein ◽  
Adam Melancon ◽  
Laurence Court ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Physics ◽  
Multiple Choice ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Radiation Biology ◽  
Multiple Choice Questions ◽  
Radiation Physics ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
Low And Middle Income

24 Background: Radiation therapy is an essential component of cancer care used for palliative and curative treatments access a wide spectrum of disease, but many low- and middle-income countries do not have equitable access to this technology or training in the radiation sciences. Towards this end, we launched a pilot program to teach the principles of radiation biology and radiation physics that are a basic component of training and credentialing of radiation oncologists in the United States. Methods: We designed a 5 days curriculum for radiation biology and radiation physics that were similar in depth and scope to the courses taught to residents at MD Anderson. Medical oncologists, medical students and radiation therapists from Zambia, Tanzania, Lesotho, as well as Papua New Guinea attended the course. All have experience with direct patient care in oncology, but no formal training in radiation biology or physics. A pre-test of 50 multiple choice questions for radiation biology and 40 multiple choice questions for radiation physics was administered to all students prior any instruction on the first day of the course, and the same test was given on the last day. Each question stem had 4 possible choices. Instructions consisted of lectures and problems sets with an emphasis on practical applications of radiation biology and physics. Results: The students (N = 22) scored a mean of 30.6±13.5% correct on the radiation biology pre-test and this improved to a mean of 57.7±13.1% after 5 days of instruction (P < 0.0001). Similarly, the students who took the medical physics exam (N = 22) had a mean 33.0±8.8% correct at baseline, which improved to 61.7±18.1% on the post-test (P < 0.0001). Conclusions: Despite almost no prior exposure to these complicated concepts, students exhibited nearly a two-fold increase in scores on a standardized test of radiation biology and medical physics. This pilot study demonstrates a proof-of-concept that this material can be taught effectively in a short time frame. Further refinement of this material may allow similar in-person intensive courses, teleconferencing, or archived videos to improve the education of radiation therapists in low- and middle-income countries.

scholarly journals The Adolescent Data Hub: The Largest Catalog of Open Access Data on Adolescents Living in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-115
Author(s):  
Corinne White ◽  
Christina Misunas ◽  
Erica Chuang ◽  
Midanna Almada ◽  
Stephanie Psaki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
Open Access Data ◽  
Access Data ◽  
Low And Middle Income

Some Conditions for Task Shifting in Low and Middle-Income Countries

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joop de Jong ◽  
Mark Jordans ◽  
Ivan Komproe ◽  
Robert Macy ◽  
Aline & Herman Ndayisaba ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Task Shifting ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
Low And Middle Income
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