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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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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
Andres Fernando Gomez Samper, Gabriel E. Herrera-Almario, David Tulloch, Daniela Blanco, Linda Lucia Cardoso, Ricardo Elias Nunez Rocha, Roshni Rajan, Vicente Gracias, Joseph S. Hanna   +8 more
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‘Climate Change and Health Indicators’ and ‘Surgical System Strengthening’: an opportunity for synergy [PDF]

BMJ Global Health
Climate change is a public health emergency. Yet, incongruously, the healthcare sector is a significant source of global greenhouse gas emissions.
Kee B Park, John G Meara, Joseph Aryankalayil, Craig D McClain, Elizabeth McLeod, Tarsicio Uribe-Leitz, Joshua S Ng Kamstra, Ayla Gerk, Callum Forbes, Rashi Jhunjhunwala, Radzi Hamzah, Maria Jose Garcia Fuentes, Alfredo Borrero Vega   +12 more
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Implementation strategy for data-driven surgical systems: a South African perspective [PDF]

BMJ Health & Care Informatics
Surgical care is essential to achieving universal health coverage, yet many African low-income, lower-middle-income countries (LMICs) and upper-middle-income countries - including South Africa—struggle to harness healthcare data for surgical system ...
Kathryn Chu, Bruce M Biccard, Salome Maswime, Hyla-Louise Kluyts, Nicholas Crisp   +4 more
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Perspective of Liberian surgical care providers on ethical issues in global surgical collaborations. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
As 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 ...
Madeleine Kruth, Lemfuka Dieudonné, Farhad Udwadia, Catherine Binda, Emilie Joos, Shahrzad Joharifard   +5 more
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Health systems strengthening in the Democratic Republic of Congo: the importance of surgical data [PDF]

BMJ Global Health
World Health Assembly resolutions have recently placed emphasis on emergency, critical and operative care to achieve universal health coverage. This will require a move away from vertical health programmes and a stronger emphasis on health systems ...
Andrew J M Leather, Elizabeth H Tissingh, Achim Mambu Vangu, Michel Nlandu Kambu, Joenel Mfundu Mbuangi   +4 more
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Strengthening ENT Care in Low Resource Settings: Multidisciplinary and Technology Enabled Strategies to Reduce Preventable Morbidity [PDF]

Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare
Zakaria 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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Building sustainable and resilient surgical systems: A narrative review of opportunities to integrate climate change into national surgical planning in the Western Pacific region

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 ...
Rennie X. Qin, Lotta Velin, Elizabeth F. Yates, Omnia El Omrani, Elizabeth McLeod, Jemesa Tudravu, Lubna Samad, Alistair Woodward, Craig D. McClain   +8 more
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Strategic planning to improve surgical, obstetric, anaesthesia, and trauma care in the Asia–Pacific region: introduction

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.
Rennie X. Qin, Zachary G. Fowler, Sangchul Yoon, Anusha Jayaram, Makela Stankey, Salmaan Keshavjee, Annette Holian, Geoff Ibbotson, Kee B. Park   +8 more
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The current status of surgical care in the Asia–Pacific region and opportunities for improvement: proceedings

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 ...
Rennie X. Qin, Zachary G. Fowler, Anusha Jayaram, Makela Stankey, Sangchul Yoon, Elizabeth McLeod, Kee B. Park   +6 more
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