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Essential surgery: key messages from Disease Control Priorities, 3rd edition
Charles N Mock, Peter Donkor, Atul Gawande, Dean T Jamison, Margaret E Kruk, Haile T Debas
The Lancet | ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC | Published : 2015
Abstract
The World Bank will publish the nine volumes of Disease Control Priorities, 3rd edition, in 2015-16. Volume 1--Essential Surgery--identifies 44 surgical procedures as essential on the basis that they address substantial needs, are cost effective, and are feasible to implement. This report summarises and critically assesses the volume's five key findings. First, provision of essential surgical procedures would avert about 1·5 million deaths a year, or 6-7% of all avertable deaths in low-income and middle-income countries. Second, essential surgical procedures rank among the most cost effective of all health interventions. The surgical platform of the first-level hospital delivers 28 of the 44..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation provides financial support for the Disease Control Priorities Network project, of which this volume is a part. The following individuals provided valuable comments and assistance on this report: Elizabeth Brouwer, Rachel Cox, Anna Dare, Sarah Greenberg, Andrew Leather, Rachel Nugent, and Gavin Yamey.