However, such data are often lacking and difficult to obtain especially for non-life threatening conditions in developing countries [ 21- 23].
Patients suffering from life-threatening conditions in developing countries are often unable to access medicines that are critical for their treatment and survival.
Because of poverty, women in developing countries are more exposed to threatening life events and extreme living conditions.
Dennis Blair, the U.S. director of national intelligence, recently stated "the risk of regime-threatening instability loosens the fragile hold that many developing countries have on law and order, which can spill out in dangerous ways into the international community".
Food waste (FW) related issues in developing countries is currently considered to be a major threatening factor for sustainable development and FW management systems.
The ongoing global financial crisis, compounded by unstable food prices, is causing increases in poverty and malnutrition, and severely threatening progress that has been made for children in some developing countries.
The substantial negative impact of waterborne cryptosporidiosis leading to potentially life-threatening diarrhea and stunting in childhood is well-recognized in developing countries (16, 17 ).
Delay in accessing EmOC facilities during life-threatening conditions is one of the most important factors of high maternal mortality in developing countries including Bangladesh [ 14- 16].
In developing countries, children less than 5 years of age are at high risk for severe, life-threatening disease associated with bacterial and viral pathogens [ 3].
