Các quốc gia mới nổi của thế giới không có độc quyền về các vấn đề tài chính, chính trị, văn hóa và góp phần chăm sóc sức khỏe không đủ cho những người bị động kinh. Hầu hết các nước công nghiệp cũng có túi của underprivilege nơi có điều kiện tương tự phổ biến. | EPILEPSY GLOBAL ISSUES FOR THE PRACTICING NEUROLOGIST KEYPOINTS The emerging countries of the world do not have a monopoly on the financial political and cultural problems that contribute to inadequate health care for people with epilepsy. Most industrialized countries also have pockets of underprivilege where similar conditions prevail. capacity-building research in low and middle income countries. The WHO has given epilepsy the highest priority for research support and it is hoped that more neurologists interested in improving care for people with epilepsy in the developing world will remain in or return to their home countries to pursue these research activities. It is necessary to recognize that conditions differ markedly from one developing country to another. For some large countries like India China and Brazil there are sufficient resources and trained personnel to create medical centers of excellence equal to those in North America and Europe but access to these centers is limited. Consequently some people with epilepsy receive a high standard of medical care while many others do not. Solving the financial and logistical problems that prevent the organization of adequate health care provision to all people with epilepsy in these countries is obviously quite different from those in countries such as the majority in sub-Saharan Africa which have little or no modern medical facilities or neurologists. Furthermore obstacles to the adequate diagnosis and treatment of people with epilepsy in rural settings of developing countries are quite different from those in urban settings and countries differ in the degree to which urban and rural problems contribute to the health care burden. Of course the emerging countries of the world do not have a monopoly on the financial political and cultural problems that contribute to inadequate health care for people with epilepsy addressed in this volume. Most industrialized countries also have pockets of underprivilege where .
