Progress on surgical system strengthening has been slow due to a disconnect between
evidence generation and the information required for effective policymaking. This systematic …

Abstract Background Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) faces the highest burden of disease
amenable to surgery while having the lowest surgeon to population ratio in the world. Some …

Background Global surgery has recently gained prominence as an academic discipline
within global health. Authorship inequity has been a consistent feature of global health …

Background Surgical, anaesthetic, and obstetric (SAO) health-care system strengthening is
needed to address the emergency and essential surgical care that approximately 5 billion …

Efforts from the developed world to improve surgical, anesthesia and obstetric care in low-
and middle-income countries have evolved from a primarily volunteer mission trip model to a …

Background Shortages of specialist surgeons in African countries mean that the needs of
rural populations go unmet. Task-shifting from surgical specialists to other cadres of …

Abstract Background District-level hospitals (DLHs) can play an important role in the delivery
of essential surgical services for rural populations in sub-Saharan Africa if adequately …

Background The global shortage of surgeons disproportionately impacts low-and middle-
income countries. To mitigate this, Zambia introduced a 'task-shifting'solution and started to …

Objectives To develop consensus statements regarding the regional-level or district-level
distribution of surgical services in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) and …

Background: Internationally, Mobile Stroke Unit (MSU) ambulances have changed pre-
hospital acute stroke care delivery. MSU clinical and cost-effectiveness studies are …