An Investigation on the Responsiveness of International Clinical Trials on the Gravest Needs of the Population: A look at three LMICs with a high number of international clinical trials
Abstract
The paper is a qualitative research paper done to assess whether the clinical trials carried out in low and
middle-income nations like India, Brazil and Philippines were to address the gravest needs of those
nations. To do so the indicators like the Years of life lost (YLL), Years of life lived with Disability (YLD) and
the number of clinical trials (CT) were observed and compared with that of USA. All the informations were
gathered from two online sites which being healthdata.org and clinicaltrials.gov. The data thus collected
were entered and assembeled in SPSS for futher analysis after which the trend of health problems that
contributed to YLL and YLD of the host nations and that of USA was studied which was one of the results
and finding of this paper. The paper is mostly descriptive analysis and when the health problems exclusive
to host nations were compared to the clinical trials done in those nations were compared the result showed
that not many clinical trials addressed them. Whereas, when the exclusive health problems of USA was
compared to the clinical trials that were done regarding the same in host nations then we saw that there
were significant number of clinical trials being done in host nations for those health problems. This showed
that the clinical trials were not responsive to the gravest needs of the host nations; India, Brazil and
Philippines in accordance with YLL and YLD
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