Burden of Surgical Disease: Strategies to Manage an Existing Public Health Emergency

The World Health Organization estimates that the burden of surgical disease due to war, self-inflicted injuries, and road traffic incidents will rise dramatically by 2020. During the 2009 Harvard Humanitarian Initiative's Humanitarian Action Summit (HHI/HAS), members of the Burden of Surgical D...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Prehospital and disaster medicine 2009-08, Vol.24 (S2), p.s228-s231
Hauptverfasser:	McQueen, K.A. Kelly, Parmar, Parveen, Kene, Mamata, Broaddus, Sam, Casey, Kathleen, Chu, Kathryn, Hyder, Joseph A., Mihailovic, Alexandra, Semer, Nadine, Sullivan, Stephen, Weiser, Thomas, Burkle, Frederick M.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	burden of surgical disease Cost of Illness Emergencies Global Health Health technology assessment humanitarian assistance Humans Medical Errors - prevention & control Needs Assessment Public Health Quality of Health Care surgery in developing countries Surgical Procedures, Operative Working Group 6
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Zusammenfassung:	The World Health Organization estimates that the burden of surgical disease due to war, self-inflicted injuries, and road traffic incidents will rise dramatically by 2020. During the 2009 Harvard Humanitarian Initiative's Humanitarian Action Summit (HHI/HAS), members of the Burden of Surgical Disease Working Group met to review the state of surgical epidemiology, the unmet global surgical need, and the role international organizations play in filling the surgical gap during humanitarian crises, conflict, and war. An outline of the group's findings and recommendations is provided.
ISSN:	1049-023X 1945-1938
DOI:	10.1017/S1049023X00021634