ReviewBMJ global health2020
Innovative financing to fund surgical systems and expand surgical care in low-income and middle-income countries.
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- Global challenges and perspectives in acute and emergency general surgery in low and middle-income countries: a scoping review.BMJ global health · 2026Article
- National surgical, obstetrics, and anaesthesia plans in Sub-Saharan Africa: a comparative economic content analysis.BMC health services research · 2026Article
- Financing surgery in LMICs: building sustainable and equitable systems for universal surgical access - a narrative review.BMC surgery · 2025Review
- Factors influencing the availability of anesthesiologists: a scoping review.Human resources for health · 2025Article
- Global Variation in Out-of-Pocket Payments for Cancer Surgery.World journal of surgery · 2025Article
- Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Services: An Innovative and Empowering Approach to Global Training and Equitable Care.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2025Review
- Exploring the concept of surgical transition: surgical activity in the light of economic development in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana and India.Frontiers in surgery · 2025Article
- Pharmacoeconomic perspectives on HIV: integrating data for long-term treatment and prevention.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Review
- Who pays for surgical care in the global south? A narrative review.PLOS global public health · 2025Review
- Assessing Surgical Care under the Government‑Funded Health Insurance Scheme-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana in India.Annals of global health · 2025Article
- Health systems strengthening through surgical and perioperative care pathways: a changing paradigm.BMJ global health · 2024Review
- Traumatic Brain Injury as an Independent Predictor of Futility in the Early Resuscitation of Patients in Hemorrhagic Shock.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Modeling the global impact of reducing out-of-pocket costs for children's surgical care.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- Identifying opportunities for global surgery in Cameroon: an analysis of existing health policies and events.The Pan African medical journal · 2024Review
- Sustainable surgical resource initiative for Haiti: the SSRI-Haiti project.Global health action · 2023Article
- National Surgical Healthcare Policy Development and Implementation: Where do We Stand in Africa?World journal of surgery · 2023Article
- Anesthesia Services in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: The Fragile Point for Safe Surgery and Patient Safety.Cureus · 2023Article
- Financing surgical, obstetric, anaesthesia, and trauma care in the Asia-Pacific region: proceedings.BMC proceedings · 2023Article
- Incorporating surgical and anesthesia care into universal health care: a national plan for the development of surgery in Madagascar.Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie · 2023Article
- A Financing Strategy to Expand Surgical Health Care.Global health, science and practice · 2023Review
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Abstract
Strong surgical systems are necessary to prevent premature death and avoidable disability from surgical conditions. The epidemiological transition, which has led to a rising burden of non-communicable diseases and injuries worldwide, will increase the demand for surgical assessment and care as a definitive healthcare intervention. Yet, 5 billion people lack access to timely, affordable and safe surgical and anaesthesia care, with the unmet demand affecting predominantly low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). Rapid surgical care scale-up is required in LMICs to strengthen health system capabilities, but adequate financing for this expansion is lacking. This article explores the critical role of innovative financing in scaling up surgical care in LMICs. We locate surgical system financing by using a modified fiscal space analysis. Through an analysis of published studies and case studies on recent trends in the financing of global health systems, we provide a conceptual framework that could assist policy-makers in health systems to develop innovative financing strategies to mobilise additional investments for scale-up of surgical care in LMICs. This is the first time such an analysis has been applied to the funding of surgical care. Innovative financing in global surgery is an untapped potential funding source for expanding fiscal space for health systems and financing scale-up of surgical care in LMICs.
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