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Potentially Avertable Child Mortality Associated with Surgical Workforce Scale-up in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Global Study
P Truche, F Botelho, AN Bowder, AW Levis, SLM Greenberg, E Smith, S Corlew, S Bickler, HE Rice, EA Ameh, JG Meara, D Poenaru, DP Mooney
World Journal of Surgery | WILEY | Published : 2021
Abstract
Background: Expansion of access to surgical care can improve health outcomes, although the impact that scale-up of the surgical workforce will have on child mortality is poorly defined. In this study, we estimate the number of child deaths potentially avertable by increasing the surgical workforce globally to meet targets proposed by the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery. Methods: To estimate the number of deaths potentially avertable through increases in the surgical workforce, we used log-linear regression to model the association between surgeon, anesthetist and obstetrician workforce (SAO) density and surgically amenable under-5 mortality rate (U5MR), infant mortality rate (IMR), and n..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We want to thank the Global Initiative for Children's Surgery (GICS) for its support of this work. GICS (www.globalchildrenssurgery.org) is a network of children's surgical and anesthesia providers from low-income, middle-income and high-income countries collaborating for the purpose of improving the quality of surgical care for children globally. There was no external funding source for this study. This work was conducted with support from Harvard Catalyst | The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center (National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health Award UL 1TR002541) and financial contributions from Harvard University and its affiliated academic healthcare centers. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of Harvard Catalyst, Harvard University and its affiliated academic healthcare centers, or the National Institutes of Health.