Surgery
- A Cosmopolitan Argument for Temporary “Diagonal” Short-Term Surgical Missions as a Component of Surgical Systems Strengthening
We propose an argument for “diagonal” short-term surgical missions as a stop-gap component of global surgical systems strengthening based upon the political justice theory of moral cosmopolitanism
- Surgical System Efficiency and Operative Productivity in Public and Private Health Facilities in Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Evaluation
The surgical system in Ethiopia in both public and private health facilities was inefficient, requiring immediate action to improve timely access to safe surgical care.
- A Financing Strategy to Expand Surgical Health Care
The authors propose a strategy to guide the financing of surgical health care services as part of national health care policies in LMICs.
- Timely Access to Essential Surgery, Surgical Workforce, and Surgical Volume: Global Surgery Indicators in Mexico
Our analysis of the 2020 national census data shows that while the majority of the Mexican population has timely access to essential surgery services, policy changes are needed to facilitate more equitable access to these services across the entire population.
- Development of a Modular and Equitable Surgical Simulator
Current trends in surgical simulation favor high-fidelity, costly models that are often limited to high-income academic centers. The GlobalSurgBox overcomes many of the barriers to routine implementation and use of surgical simulators in low-income countries by circumventing the often prohibitive financial, time, and personnel investments required of current simulation prototypes.
- A Narrative Review of Kenya’s Surgical Capacity Using the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery’s Indicator Framework
Limited progress has been made on the expansion of access to surgical care in Kenya as assessed with the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery’s indicator framework, underscoring the need for a national surgery, obstetrics, and anesthesia plan.
- The Development and Inclusion of Questions on Surgery in the 2018 Zambia Demographic and Health Survey
Data from household surveys serve as the backbone to sustainable development planning. For the first time, questions on surgery have been included in a nationwide Demographic and Health Survey, showing that it is feasible to integrate these questions into a large-scale survey.
- Strategies for Improving Quality and Safety in Global Health: Lessons From Nontechnical Skills for Surgery Implementation in Rwanda
The Non-Technical Skills for Surgeons (NOTSS) framework is a taxonomy of cognitive and social skills that foster expertise and medical knowledge in the operating room. This framework can be used as a method to improve the quality of surgical care in global efforts to improve access to affordable surgery.
- Implementation of GeneXpert for TB Testing in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review
This review highlights a commonality of implementation barriers across geographically dispersed GeneXpert interventions for TB testing. This indicates the importance of using implementation frameworks to report findings that can improve public health outcomes across low- and middle-income countries.
- Top 10 Resources in Global Surgery
This resource list could serve to orient those interested in global surgery and could be supplemented with resources advocating for global surgery from clinical, population health, or policy perspectives.