A probiotic dairy product was developed on the basis of a traditional dish called mutandabota to enable resource-poor populations in southern Africa to benefit from a functional food.
In New York City, he said, coastal areas, like Jamaica Bay, tend to have limited resources, poorer populations, and more residents without insurance, as well as already existing environmental burdens, like industrial pollution.
With the lowest protein∶energy ratio (P∶E) of any staple food, resource-poor populations that rely on cassava as their major source of calories are at high risk of PEM [8] and developing conditions such as Kwashiorkor [9] and related pathological disorders [10].
High-income countries and other actors should assume responsibility for the costs they have inflicted on these resource-poor populations.
Infestation with the human head louse (Pediculus humanus capitis) occurs worldwide, and pediculosis capitis is hyperendemic in many resource-poor populations in the developing world [ 1, 2].
With surveys reporting that 80% of individuals in developing countries have experienced health sector corruption, these resource-poor populations are disproportionately impacted [ 4, 7, 8].
Indeed, human exposure to arsenic often occurs in relatively resource-poor populations in developing countries that also may have low dietary intakes of methionine (Anetor et al. 2007).
Lack of communication between the many nonprofit, governmental, and other entities involved plague attempts to increase health of resource-poor populations.
Support in rural areas: Khululeka Community Education Development Centre Khululeka focuses on meeting the expressed needs of the most rural, resource-poor populations in the Queenstown area of South Africa's Eastern Cape.
The results indicate that in resource-poor populations important disease may frequently occur and seems to be related to a combination of intense transmission, economic deprivation, social neglect, and inadequate healthcare behavior.
