The difficulties in drinking water supply which characterize developing countries call out the political authorities to provide gigantic efforts in infrastructure realizations, equipments and especially mobilization, protection and management of hydraulic resources.
However, Monteiro et al 30 noted that changing economic, social, and cultural environments, which characterize developing countries, point to the existence of diversified, complex, and dynamic patterns in the social determination of obesity.
Moreover, peasant farmers are subject to formidable risks of crop failure, quite apart from the risks associated with the shorter average life span that characterizes developing countries.
Exposure to endocrine active compounds, including bisphenol A (BPA), remains poorly characterized in developing countries despite the fact that behavioral practices related to westernization have the potential to influence exposure.
Weak public institutions, including high levels of corruption, characterize many developing countries.
Still another lesson is the desirability of slowing down the rapid population growth that characterizes most developing countries.
3 Renal failure is a global public health problem, but the disease magnitude has been better characterized in developed countries.
In comparison with developed countries, developing countries are characterized by rapidly changing socio-economic environments (especially, income).
It is an increasing problem in developed and developing countries and is characterized by the simultaneous presence of several metabolic risk factors.
The burden of disease due to influenza is not well characterized for children in developing countries and the effectiveness of available influenza vaccines in lower resource settings has not been established.
