Worldwide, 4.8 billion people do not have access to safe, adequate surgical care and an-
aesthetic management. Surgical care has been deemed “the neglected child of global …

Surgically treated disorders represent a significant proportion of the burden of the diseases
associated with poverty. Furthermore, surgery is a cost-effective method of reducing …

An estimated five billion people worldwide do not have access to safe and affordable
surgical and anesthetic care. Most of these people live in low-and middle-income countries …

Approximately 2 billion people lack access to emergency and essential surgical care (Funk
and others 2010). Most of the need is in rural and marginalized populations living in low-and …

Surgery is an essential component of health systems but has generally been neglected
within global public health. This is despite growing evidence documenting the cost …

Surgically correctable pathology accounts for a sizeable proportion of the overall global
burden of disease. Over the last decade the role of surgery in the public health agenda has …

Five billion people worldwide lack timely access to safe and affordable surgical care, the
majority of whom live in low-middle-income countries (LMICs). Only 3.5% of the 266 million …

To paraphrase Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken, global surgical care has taken a road
less traveled, and it has indeed made a difference. Yet, traveling this road has not …

Research over the past 15 years has dramatically changed how surgical care is viewed
within global health. Once thought as too expensive and inappropriate for settings of limited …

Background Little is factually known about the burden of surgical disease and less is known
about global surgical provision of care for diseases that may be treated, cured, or palliated …