Rather, we believe there is 'added' value from ensuring that future economic evaluations undertaken in developing country settings are conducted in such a way as to improve their internal and external validity.
A series of studies was undertaken in developing countries to examine the sensitivity and specificity of clinical symptoms and signs of pneumonia: these included a history of cough or breathlessness, inability to feed, raised respiratory rate, lower chest wall indrawing, fever, and tachycardia [ 8– 12] (Table 1).
While a number of studies have explored the factors associated with dog ownership among communities in developed countries [ 8, 28- 31], few equivalent studies have been undertaken in developing economies.
A great many of these initiatives will be undertaken in developing countries.
Building on previous work undertaken in developing the clinical learning environment and supervision (CLES) scale this report outlines the development of a new sub-dimension to the CLES scale.
No such initiative has been undertaken in developing countries.
In CDM, developed countries can earn certified emission reduction credits from emission reduction projects undertaken in developing countries.
In this regard, several studies have also shown that EF can be improved with training (Blair & Diamond, 2008; Diamond et al., 2007; Diamond & Lee, 2011; Rosário et al. 2007b), but such studies remain limited in number and are geographically concentrated in North America and Europe; few such studies have been undertaken in developing countries.
Finally, we want to highlight the work that several public and non-governmental institutions across Mexico have undertaken in developing, updating, and providing widespread, open access to spatial databases of governmental PAs and SICs for land protection for conservation of local biodiversity.
While some studies have been undertaken in developing countries [ 7, 8], knowledge from these settings is particularly thin.
