A granular analysis of service delivery for surgical system strengthening: Application of the Lancet indicators for policy development in Colombia [PDF]
The Lancet Regional Health. Americas, 2022 Summary: Background: The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery (LCoGS) surgical indicators have given the surgical community metrics for objectively characterizing the disparity in access to surgical healthcare. However, aggregate national statistics lack
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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]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2022 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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‘Climate Change and Health Indicators’ and ‘Surgical System Strengthening’: an opportunity for synergy [PDF]
BMJ Global HealthClimate change is a public health emergency. Yet, incongruously, the healthcare sector is a significant source of global greenhouse gas emissions.
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The effect of eye health system strengthening on the productivity of services: a before-and-after evaluation conducted in seven counties in Kenya [PDF]
Frontiers in Health ServicesIntroductionHealth system strengthening is essential for achieving universal eye health coverage, yet evidence on the combined effect of simultaneous investments in infrastructure, human resource, equipment, and governance remains limited in low- and ...
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Perspective of Liberian surgical care providers on ethical issues in global surgical collaborations. [PDF]
PLoS ONEAs the field of global surgery develops, increased attention is being paid to its ethical considerations. However, there is a dearth of research on ethical challenges in global surgery that includes the voices of providers from Low- and Middle-Income ...
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Strengthening ENT Care in Low Resource Settings: Multidisciplinary and Technology Enabled Strategies to Reduce Preventable Morbidity [PDF]
Journal of Multidisciplinary HealthcareZakaria Mohamed Adan,1 Abdullahi Abdirahman Omar2 1Department of Medicine and Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, SIMAD University, Mogadishu, Somalia; 2Department of Research, Dr.
Adan ZM, Omar AA
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The Lancet Regional Health. Western Pacific, 2022 Summary: Five billion people lack access to surgical care worldwide; climate change is the biggest threat to human health in the 21st century. This review studies how climate change could be integrated into national surgical planning in the Western ...
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BMC Proceedings, 2023 Surgical, obstetric, and anaesthesia care are required to treat one-third of the global disease burden. They have been recognised as an integral component of universal health coverage.
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BMC Proceedings, 2023 The World Health Assembly resolution 68.15 recognised emergency and essential surgery as a critical component of universal health coverage. The first session of the three-part virtual meeting series on Strategic Planning to Improve Surgical, Obstetric ...
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Strategic partnerships to improve surgical care in the Asia–Pacific region: proceedings
BMC Proceedings, 2023 Emergency and essential surgery is a critical component of universal health coverage. Session three of the three-part virtual meeting series on Strategic Planning to Improve Surgical, Obstetric, Anaesthesia, and Trauma Care in the Asia–Pacific Region ...
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