A confounding effect of country with study design is also apparent: all Nordic studies showing a large effect size were parallel-design studies, whereas the only Nordic study showing a negative effect had a crossover design.
You'll note, for example, a heavy focus on developed countries, with one study of East African drought and one more of flooding rains in China (neither of which found a strong global warming signal) being the exceptions.
When she's not reeling from wanderlust (she lived on a ship for four months and visited 15 countries with the study abroad program Semester at Sea), she's planning her next trip, reading, writing, thrifting, and drinking an absurd amount of coffee.
Use of capillaroscopy to examine microcirculatory impairment is also gaining popularity amongst Western and Eastern countries, with dedicated study groups at ACR and EULAR congresses.
The majority of studies regarding MPC in GC have been performed in Eastern countries, with fewer studies performed in Western countries.
For countries with multiple studies in a time period, a summary prevalence was calculated using a weighted average based on study population size (Additional file 3).
The research involved subjects in 40 countries, with 32 studies enrolling participants in multiple countries.
Intention to turnover has been a topic of much of the research on nursing workforce in developed countries with most studies conducted in urban hospital settings.
Prevalence is extremely high among PWID in many countries with some studies suggesting more than one in two PWID are infected with the virus in parts of Estonia, Russia and Ukraine.
Although the MPOWER package was introduced by the WHO in 2008, individual tobacco control policies contained in MPOWER have been implemented much earlier in various countries, with evaluation studies of their health impact having been published prior to MPOWER introduction.
