The Optimal Distribution of Surgery in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Proposed Matrix for Determining Country-Level Organization of Surgical Services – A Response to the Recent Commentaries

Document Type : Correspondence

Authors

• Katherine R. Iverson ^{1, 2}
• Emma Svensson ^{1, 3}
• Kristin Sonderman ^{1, 4}
• Ernest J. Barthélemy ^{1, 5}
• Isabelle Citron ¹
• Kerry A. Vaughan ^{1, 6}
• Brittany L. Powell ^{1, 7}
• John G. Meara ^{1, 8}
• Mark G. Shrime ^{1, 9}

¹ Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

² General Surgery Department, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA, USA

³ Lund University, Lund, Sweden

⁴ Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

⁵ Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, NY, USA

⁶ University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

⁷ Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

⁸ Department of Plastic and Oral Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

⁹ Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, MA, USA

Keywords

• Global Surgery
• Service Delivery
• Health Systems
• National Surgical Planning
• Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs)