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The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery Global surgery 2030: Evidence and solutions for achieving health, welfare and economic development

Year: 2015

Type: article

Abstract: The vision of the lancet commission on global surgery is universal access to safe, affordable, surgical and anaesthesia care when needed.1 Five billion people, largely the poor, marginalized, and rural, face impossible hurdles and for all practical purposes are excluded from what often is life-saving or disability-averting treatment.2 For many, it is simply lack of money; for others, it is the tyranny of distance and poor transportation infrastructure. For the remainder who can afford it and can travel the distance, they arrive to find a feeble health care system with too few surgeons or anesthetists, no medications, no oxygen, and no blood for needed transfusion.

Source: Surgery

DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2015.02.009

Authors: John G. Meara, Sarah L.M. Greenberg

Institutions: Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard University

Language: English

Topic: Global Health and Surgery

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDGs: Good health and well-being, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $4,130