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ArticleInnovative surgical sciences2019

Surgical leadership in Africa - challenges and opportunities.

Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, Frank Edwin

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Article in Innovative surgical sciences, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Kwabena Frimpong-BoatengUniversity of Ghana College of Health Sciences, Accra, Ghana.
Frank EdwinUniversity of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Ghana.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Surgical care has been described as one of the Cinderellas in the global health development agenda, taking a backseat to public health, child health, and infectious diseases. In the midst of such competing health-care needs, surgical care, often viewed by policy makers as luxurious and the preserve of the rich, gets relegated to the bottom of priority lists. In the meantime, infectious disease, malnutrition, and other ailments, viewed as largely affecting the poor and disadvantaged in society, get embedded in national health plans, receiving substantial funding and public health program development. It is often stated that the main reason for this sad state of affairs in surgical care is the lack of political will to improve matters in the health sector. Indeed, in 2001, the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health concluded that the lack of political will to sufficiently increase spending on health at the sub-national, national, and international levels was perhaps the most critical barrier to improving health in low-income countries. However, at the root of this lack of political will is a lack of political priority for surgical care.

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global surgeryleadershippolitical prioritysub-Saharan Africauniversal health care

Identifiers

PMID31579804
PMCPMC6754052

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