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Although some of the highest population-growth rates were among developing countries, the report pointed out that the environmental impact of an additional individual born in an industrialized country was much greater than of one born in a developing country.
In fact her HIV was not a consequence of those supposedly "bad" lifestyle choices, but an unlucky accident of birth – Michelle was born in a developing country in Africa, and at some point the doctors looking after her infected her with the virus, probably by using an unsterilised needle.
We therefore obtained a figure for each practice, based on the Super Output Area, estimating the proportion of the resident population who were born in a developing country (born outside Europe, Australasia or North America).
Higher list sizes per GP, turnover of registered patients, chronic disease prevalence, proportions of elderly patients or patients born in a developing country did not contribute to lower QOF scores in the final model.
For example, a high proportion of patients aged 75 years and over or a high proportion of the local population being born in a developing country did not have an independent effect on the QOF score (Table 1).
The family structure (single-parent family vs two-parent family), and child's origin (native vs immigrant), when both parents and/or the child were born in a developing country, were also included.
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Women in the world's poorest countries are 300 times more likely to succumb to complications in their pregnancy, while a child born into poverty is almost fourteen times more likely to die in their first month than if they were born in a developed economy.
I was born in in a developing country.
These numbers are the first standardized, systematic, occupation-specific measure of skilled professionals working in developed countries and born in a large number of developing countries.
A child born in the developing world today can expect to live eight years longer than one born 30 years ago.
The majority of humans – or at least those of us born in the developing world – cannot legally cross most borders.
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