… year, which by 2030, could be as high as 12 million deaths per year from global surgery. …
While not a disease entity, major surgery needs to find a home within the global healthcare …

… health transitions theory; and adds a new section about the history of international health and
global health… A risk factor is said to be a necessary part of the disease pathway if it must be …

… middle-income country health systems have limited surgical capacity in part due to surgical
… on Global Surgery (LCoGS) convened a group of experts to provide estimates on the global …

… surgery. This article aimed to support surgical and anaesthetic teams and health service
leaders by identifying key domains that should be covered in pandemic preparedness plans. …

… as a major public health challenge globally. Recently, IARC (International Association of …
limited availability of trained thoracic and head and neck surgeons in some parts of the world. …

Background The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted routine hospital services globally. This
study estimated the total number of adult elective operations that would be cancelled …

… current global cardiac surgery capacity, to support health system … to scale up access to
cardiac surgery on a global level. … Global surgery is a relatively new field, and subspecialization …

… This evolution had a profound impact on an evolving health financing … of health spending
in these vast world regions. The medical device and pharmaceutical industry play a crucial role …

… as a health priority in health sector policies and programmes, making it an essential
component for strengthening health care systems in order to achieve universal health coverage. …

… surgery within COVID-19–free surgical pathways were younger with fewer comorbidities
than those in hospitals with no defined pathway but with similar proportions of major surgery. …