Lancet
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Surgical care needs in low-resource countries are increasingly recognised as an important aspect of global health, yet data for the size of the problem are insufficient. The Surgeons OverSeas Assessment of Surgical Need (SOSAS) is a population-based cluster survey previously used in Nepal, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone. ⋯ None.
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Surgical conditions exert a major health burden in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), yet surgery remains a low priority on national health agendas. Little is known about the national factors that influence whether surgery is prioritised in LMICs. We investigated factors that could facilitate or prevent surgery from being a health priority in three LMICs. ⋯ The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, King's Health Partners/King's College London, and Lund University.
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Head and neck cancer, for which the diagnosis and treatment are often surgical, comprises a substantial proportion of the burden of disease in South Asia. Further, estimates of surgical volume suggest this region faces a critical shortage of surgical capacity. We aimed to estimate the total economic welfare losses due to the morbidity and mortality of head and neck cancer in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh for 1 year (2010). ⋯ None.
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Little is known of the effect that surgery has on out-of-pocket health-care expenditure or on catastrophic health payments in low-income settings. Our study aims to estimate the surgery cost paid out-of-pocket by injury patients admitted to a provincial hospital in Vietnam and the risk of catastrophic expenditure at 12 months after discharge. ⋯ Atlantic Philanthropies.
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Trauma and road traffic accidents are predicted to increase significantly in the next decade in low-income and middle-income countries. The College of Surgeons of East, Central, and Southern Africa (COSECSA) covers Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Mozambique, Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Zambia. Ministry of Health websites for these ten countries show that 992 hospitals are covering an estimated 318 million people. ⋯ UK Department for International Development (DFID).