International Journal of Health Policy and Management

International Journal of Health Policy and Management

Global Surgery Priorities: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Document Type : Correspondence

Authors
Jakub Gajewski 1
Ruairi Brugha 2
Leon Bijlmakers 3
1 Institute of Global Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
2 Department of Epidemiology and Public Health Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin 2, Ireland
3 Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
10.15171/ijhpm.2019.10
Keywords
Global Surgery
Africa
Health Systems
Subjects

We welcome the five published responses1-5 to our editorial,6 which outlined a research agenda for making surgery accessible in low- and middle-income country settings, where it is most needed... (Read more...)

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  2. Henry JA. Global surgery - redirecting strategies for a global research agenda: Comment on "Global surgery - informing national strategies for scaling up surgery in sub-Saharan Africa." Int J Health Policy Manag. 2018;7(11):1064-1066. doi:10.15171/ijhpm.2018.79
  3. Peck GL, Hanna JS. The National Surgical, Obstetric, and Anesthesia Plan (NSOAP): recognition and definition of an empirically evolving global surgery systems science: Comment on "Global surgery - informing national strategies for scaling up surgery in sub-Saharan Africa." Int J Health Policy Manag. 2018;7(12):1151-1154. doi:10.15171/ijhpm.2018.87
  4. Debas HT. Progress in global surgery: Comment on "Global surgery - informing national strategies for scaling up surgery in sub-Saharan Africa." Int J Health Policy Manag. 2018;7(11):1056-1057. doi:10.15171/ijhpm.2018.69
  5. Katz MG, Price RR, Nunez JM. Local research catalyzes national surgical planning: Comment on "Global surgery - informing national strategies for scaling up surgery in sub-Saharan Africa." Int J Health Policy Manag. 2018;7(11):1058-1060. doi:10.15171/ijhpm.2018.78
  6. Gajewski J, Bijlmakers L, Brugha R. Global surgery - informing national strategies for scaling up surgery in sub-Saharan Africa. Int J Health Policy Manag. 2018;7(6):481-484. doi:10.15171/ijhpm.2018.27
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  8. Peters DH. Health policy and systems research: the future of the field. Health Res Policy Syst. 2018;16(1):84. doi:10.1186/s12961-018-0359-0
  9. Walsh A, Brugha R, Byrne E. "The way the country has been carved up by researchers": ethics and power in north-south public health research. Int J Equity Health. 2016;15(1):204. doi:10.1186/s12939-016-0488-4
  10. Brugha R, Donoghue M, Starling M, et al. The Global Fund: managing great expectations. Lancet. 2004;364(9428):95-100. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(04)16595-1
  11. Gajewski J, Borgstein E, Bijlmakers L, et al. Evaluation of a surgical training programme for clinical officers in Malawi. Br J Surg. 2019;106(2):e156-e165. doi:10.1002/bjs.11065
  12. World Health Organization (WHO). Service Availability and Readiness Assessment (SARA): an annual monitoring system for service delivery. https://www.who.int/healthinfo/systems/SARA_Reference_Manual_Full.pdf.  Accessed February 12, 2019. Published 2013.
  13. Groen RS, Kamara TB, Dixon-Cole R, Kwon S, Kingham TP, Kushner AL. A tool and index to assess surgical capacity in low income countries: an initial implementation in Sierra Leone. World J Surg. 2012;36(8):1970-1977. doi:10.1007/s00268-012-1591-3
  14. Mullan F, Frehywot S. Non-physician clinicians in 47 sub-Saharan African countries. Lancet. 2007;370(9605):2158-2163. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(07)60785-5
  15. Gajewski J, Mweemba C, Cheelo M, et al. Non-physician clinicians in rural Africa: lessons from the Medical Licentiate programme in Zambia. Hum Resour Health. 2017;15(1):53. doi:10.1186/s12960-017-0233-0
  16. Steyn E, Edge J. Ethical considerations in global surgery. Br J Surg. 2019;106(2):e17-e19. doi:10.1002/bjs.11028
  17. Finlayson SR. How should academic surgeons respond to enthusiasts of global surgery? Surgery. 2013;153(6):871-872. doi:10.1016/j.surg.2013.02.020
  18. Hutch A, Bekele A, O'Flynn E, et al. The Brain Drain Myth: Retention of Specialist Surgical Graduates in East, Central and Southern Africa, 1974-2013. World J Surg. 2017;41(12):3046-3053. doi:10.1007/s00268-017-4307-x
International Journal of Health Policy and Management
Volume 8, Issue 6
June 2019
Pages 381-383

  • Received Date 07 February 2019
  • Revised Date 17 February 2019
  • Accepted Date 17 February 2019
  • First Published Date 01 June 2019
  • Published Date 01 June 2019