Reversing the trend: a scoping review of health innovation transfer or exchange from low- and middle-income countries to high-income countries.

ABSTRACT: The transfer of innovations from low and middle-income countries (LMICs) to high-income countries (HICs) has received little attention, leaving gaps in the understanding of the process, its benefits and the factors influencing it. This scoping review, part of a National Institutes of Health (NIH) project and the focus for a 2022 NIH-sponsored workshop on Global Health Reciprocal Innovation, sought to identify publications describing health innovations that were researched, developed and implemented in LMICs and adapted to address similar health challenges in HICs. A protocol was written a priori and registered on Open Science Framework. Four databases were searched for articles published in English from 2000 to 2022 and described health innovations developed in LMICs and were transf

SUBMITTER: Ishimwe MCS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10660955 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature