Evidence-Driven Policies for Sustainably Scaling Up Surgical Task-Sharing in Malawi; Comment on “Improving Access to Surgery Through Surgical Team Mentoring – Policy Lessons From Group Model Building With Local Stakeholders in Malawi” [PDF]
This commentary discusses an article by Broekhuizen et al which assesses policy options for scaling up the SURG-Africa surgical team mentoring program in Malawi to increase access to surgical care. In modeling these scenarios, the authors assess the cost
Desmond T. Jumbam +3 more
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An Urgent Need for a Common Framework for the Articulation, Design and Reporting of Surgical System Strengthening Interventions; Comment on “Improving Access to Surgery Through Surgical Team Mentoring – Policy Lessons From Group Model Building With Local Stakeholders in Malawi” [PDF]
Nearly 60% of the world’s inhabitants lack access to timely, safe, and ffordable emergency and essential surgical, anesthetic, and obstetric (SAO) services when needed.
Joseph S. Hanna
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Background Indicators to evaluate progress towards timely access to safe surgical, anaesthesia, and obstetric (SAO) care were proposed in 2015 by the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery.
J. Davies +37 more
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Systematic analysis of authorship demographics in global surgery
Background Global surgery has recently gained prominence as an academic discipline within global health. Authorship inequity has been a consistent feature of global health publications, with over-representation of authors from high-income countries (HICs)
Krithi Ravi +61 more
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Growing academic global surgery: opportunities for Canadian trainees
Summary Global surgery has seen exponential growth over the past few years, and Canadian trainees’ interest in the field has followed. Global surgery is defined by a commitment to health equity and community partnership.
Xiya Ma, D. Vervoort, A. Dare
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Global Surgery: advent of a new discipline
Global surgery is a rapidly developing multidisciplinary field, aiming to provide equitable and improved surgical care across international health systems often with a focus on underserved populations of low- and middle-income countries1.
D. Sharma
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Efforts from the developed world to improve surgical, anesthesia and obstetric care in low- and middle-income countries have evolved from a primarily volunteer mission trip model to a sustainable health system strengthening approach as private and public
Paul Truché +12 more
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A systematic review of global surgery partnerships and a proposed framework for sustainability
Background: Building surgical capacity through global surgery partnerships (GSPs) between high and low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is a rising global health focus. Our aim was to conduct a systematic review to characterize strategies employed by
Nicole Jedrzejko +7 more
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This article outlines the global surgery activities held at the 66th Annual International Meeting of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons (BAPS) in 2019. For the first time BAPS introduced a plenary session on global surgery. Topics that were covered include management of birth defects in Low-Middle Income Countries (LMIC), mostly ...
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Surgical leadership in changing times: the American College of Surgeons perspective
Surgeons around the globe are challenged by the rapid evolution of the environment in which they practice their profession. Changes in surgical technologies, the complexity of surgical patient care, and the regulatory and financial environment of ...
Bass Barbara Lee
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