1. Burden of Surgical Disease: Strategies to Manage an Existing Public Health Emergency
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Stephen R. Sullivan, Parveen Parmar, Alexandra Mihailovic, Joseph A. Hyder, Sam Broaddus, Kathleen M. Casey, Kelly McQueen, Thomas G. Weiser, Mamata Kene, Kathryn Chu, Nadine B. Semer, and Frederick M. Burkle
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Disease ,Emergency Nursing ,Global Health ,World health ,Cost of Illness ,Epidemiology ,Humans ,Medicine ,Road traffic ,health care economics and organizations ,Quality of Health Care ,geography ,Summit ,geography.geographical_feature_category ,Medical Errors ,business.industry ,Humanitarian aid ,Public health ,medicine.disease ,Surgical Procedures, Operative ,Emergency Medicine ,Public Health ,Medical emergency ,Emergencies ,Humanitarian action ,business ,Needs Assessment - Abstract
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.
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- 2009
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