"In a large proportion of the countries and territories of the world," the report says, "insignificant amounts of these medicines are available for medical purposes and it is generally agreed that the treatment of chronic or acute pain caused by cancer is still inadequate.
Badia constitutes a large proportion of the countries in the region: around 80%% of Jordan, 75%% of Iraq, 90%% of Saudi Arabia and 55%% of Syria (Alwelaie [1985]; Sankari [1993]).
Chronic heart failure (CHF) is the leading cause of all hospitalisations and readmissions in older people, accounting for a large proportion of developed countries' national health care expenditure.
Chronic heart failure (CHF) significantly contributes to this disease burden and is the leading cause of all hospitalisations and readmissions in older people, accounting for a large proportion of developed countries' national health care expenditure [ 2, 3].
Because the factors that appear to influence the shifts in the relationship between temperature and mortality are not local and are thus extrapolatable to a large proportion of developed countries, their relevance is self-evident.
Some countries have experienced a high volume of outward migration in terms of sheer numbers (e.g. India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Egypt, Sri Lanka, Philippines), while other countries have only lost a few psychiatrists, but these few represent a large proportion of the country total, (e.g. Tanzania).
Since 1995, a large proportion of the country's brightest and best have left.
By that time, UMHK was one of the largest single sources of Congolese governmental revenue and accounted for a large proportion of the country's foreign exchange earnings.
The scarcity of fertile land and water imposes severe limitations on agriculture, and a large proportion of the country's food must be imported.
