Global surgery is an essential component of global health
The Surgeon, 2022 Global surgery as an essential component of global health. Global surgery is the study and practice of improving access to timely, quality, and affordable surgical care. It emphasizes horizontal health systems strengthening through addressing a range of health challenges in surgical care that improve health outcomes, particularly in vulnerable ...
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Evaluation of Global Surgery Perspectives and Knowledge Amongst Past Surgical Trainees in East, Central, and Southern Africa: A Cross‐Sectional Study [PDF]
Health Science ReportsBackground and Aims Africa faces a shortage of academic Global Surgery programs, limiting trainee exposure despite pressing surgical care inequities. Global Surgery seeks to improve access through systems and policy strengthening.
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Global surgery and climate change: how global surgery can prioritise both the health of the planet and its people. [PDF]
BMC SurgClimate change is an emerging global health crisis, disproportionately affecting low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) where health outcomes are increasingly compromised by environmental stressors such as pollution, natural disasters, and human ...
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Community participation in global surgery
BMJ Global Health, 2021 ### Summary box Global surgery is a multidisciplinary academic field that aims to deliver equitable access to safe, timely, affordable surgical care in all countries.1 Research in global surgery is generally focused in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) and has traditionally been led by researchers from high-income countries (HIC), with a ...
Vigneshwar R Veerappan, Rahul M Jindal
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Geospatial determinants of health: A global surgery lens [PDF]
Journal of the Colleges of Medicine of South AfricaGlobal surgery represents an emerging interdisciplinary field dedicated to enhancing health outcomes and promoting health equity by addressing the unmet need for surgical, obstetric and anaesthesia care, especially among underserved populations and those
Moses Isiagi, Yvan Zolo, Salome Maswime
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Training global surgery advocates: Strengthening the global surgery voice
McGill Journal of Medicine, 2020 Objective: To strengthen medical trainees around the world on global surgery and advocacy and help develop future generations of global surgeons, anaesthesiologists, and obstetricians.
Xiya Ma, Dominique Vervoort, Dan Poenaru
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Global surgery interest and engagement in Canadian thoracic surgery practice. [PDF]
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Ending Neglected Surgical Diseases (NSDs): Definitions, Strategies, and Goals for the Next Decade [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2022 While there has been overall progress in addressing the lack of access to surgical care worldwide, untreated surgical conditions in developing countries remain an underprioritized issue.
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Improving Access to Surgery Through Surgical Team Mentoring – Policy Lessons From Group Model Building With Local Stakeholders in Malawi [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2022 Background There is much scope to empower district hospital (DH) surgical teams in low- and middle- income countries to undertake a wider range and a larger number of surgical procedures so as to make surgery more accessible to rural populations and ...
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Beyond Policy: Strengthening District Level Access to Surgery Is Critical to Achieving Surgical Equity in Universal Health Coverage; Comment on “Improving Access to Surgery Through Surgical Team Mentoring – Policy Lessons From Group Model Building With Local Stakeholders in Malawi” [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2023 District level access to surgical care has been identified as the rate limiting step to increasing access to the bottom billion and relies on a complex interplay of patient-related and system-based factors that underlie the provision of quality surgical ...
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