Open AccessTransplant Links: Taking Renal Transplantation to the Developing World
Author(s) -
Andrew Ready
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
bulletin of the royal college of surgeons of england
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1478-7075
pISSN - 1473-6357
DOI - 10.1308/bull.2011.93.10.351
Subject(s) - urbanization , developing country , transplantation , scale (ratio) , meaning (existential) , medicine , health care , development economics , limited resources , economic growth , business , intensive care medicine , economics , psychology , geography , risk analysis (engineering) , surgery , cartography , psychotherapist
The developing world is, by definition, developing. Many countries are successfully moving up the socio-economic scale, often in response to newly found natural resources such as oil. Urbanisation is also occurring at a rapid rate, leading to the emergence of nonagricultural working and middle classes whose healthcare needs increasingly resemble those seen in the developed world. These changes invariably occur ahead of developments in healthcare, meaning that the availability of many of the more complex treatments now required remains very limited. This may be due to lack of awareness and confidence as much as economic factors.