TY - JOUR
T1 - Burden of surgical disease
T2 - Strategies to manage an existing public health emergency
AU - McQueen, K. A Kelly
AU - Parmar, Parveen
AU - Kene, Mamata
AU - Broaddus, Sam
AU - Casey, Kathleen
AU - Chu, Kathryn
AU - Hyder, Joseph A.
AU - Mihailovic, Alexandra
AU - Semer, Nadine
AU - Sullivan, Stephen
AU - Weiser, Thomas
AU - Burkle, Frederick M.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - burden of surgical disease
KW - humanitarian assistance
KW - surgery in developing countries
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U2 - 10.1017/S1049023X00021634
DO - 10.1017/S1049023X00021634
M3 - Article
C2 - 19806545
AN - SCOPUS:73949161104
SN - 1049-023X
VL - 24
SP - s228-s231
JO - Prehospital and disaster medicine
JF - Prehospital and disaster medicine
IS - SUPPL.2
ER -