This study was organised into two parts: we asked doctors trained in France and those trained in the UK about the reasons behind the decision to expatriate.
As this study was organised by the Kazakh Ministry of Health, the interviewers may have been perceived as governmental officials; this may have contributed, in addition to cultural norms, to a positive mode of reporting.
Thus, the way the study was organised may have contributed to the high response rates observed.
Reporting of the study was organised according to the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) statement.
The study is organised as follows: the first part gives insights into the knowledge-based economy, then the concept of the knowledge triangle is introduced.
The study is organised in three data collection phases, encompassing five research tasks.
The study is organised into two 6-month follow-up periods.
The TAPHE study is organised into five component studies with participants drawn from a pregnant mother child cohort and an adult cohort (n=1200 participants in each cohort).
The results of the analysis from the perception study is organised and presented in three parts: reasons for participating, trust in science, and ways of informing.
The TAPHE study is organised into five interlinked component studies with data collection on air pollution exposures and health outcomes spread across two rural urban cohorts in Tamil Nadu.
