Background Although departments of surgery and surgical specialties are well established
components of all medical schools, these departments generally focus on the teaching of …

To the unfamiliar, the idea of global surgery conjures images of providing direct surgical
care in remote places. While this is one component of global surgery, this book is dedicated …

People who have been working to assure surgical care to everyone in the world (including
that majority of the world's people who live in poverty in low-and middleincome countries …

Global health is one of the defining issues of the 21st century, attracting unprecedented
levels of interest and propelling health and disease from a biomedical process to a social …

Globally, rising economies are leading to an epidemiologic transition wherein injury, cancer,
and congenital malformations are becoming much more prominent public health threats in …

Much has been made of the emerging sub-specialty of global surgery; however, the
processes by which its objectives can be achieved within the larger architecture of the global …

Triplets delivered in 2015,(the World Bank's Disease Control Priorities 3rd edition, the World
Health Assembly's resolution 68.15, and the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery report) …

Global surgery is an emerging academic discipline that is developing in tandem with
numerous policy and advocacy initiatives. In this regard, academic global surgery will be …

A workforce trained in the development and delivery of equitable surgical care is critical in
reducing the global burden of surgical disease. Academic global surgery aims to address …

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