'Global surgery'is the term adopted to describe a rapidly developing multidisciplinary field
aiming to provide improved and equitable surgical care across international health systems …

Introduction Worldwide, more than 20 million patients undergo groin hernia repair annually.
The many different approaches, treatment indications and a significant array of techniques …

Background Understanding the economic value of health interventions is essential for policy
makers to make informed resource allocation decisions. The objective of this systematic …

Surgery is a cross-cutting intervention, with borders that are nebulous and ill-defined.
Quantification of the global burden of surgical disease has therefore been difficult. In 2006 …

An insufficient surgical workforce is a major barrier to safe surgical care for billions of people
worldwide. 1 Although a critical shortage of a spectrum of surgical providers has been …

Background Approximately 150 million individuals worldwide face catastrophic expenditure
each year from medical costs alone, and the non-medical costs of accessing care increase …

Background: Orofacial clefts are one of the most common congenital anomalies, but this
disease burden is unevenly distributed worldwide. The authors hypothesize that this burden …

Objective To determine whether patient-surgeon gender concordance is associated with
mortality of patients after surgery in the United States. Design Retrospective observational …

Background Child health is a key priority on the global health agenda, yet the provision of
essential and emergency surgery in children is patchy in resource-poor regions. This study …

Abstract Introduction The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery (LCoGS) set the
benchmark of 5000 procedures per 100,000 population annually to meet surgical needs …