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ArticleDeveloping world bioethics2026

How Should Ongoing Surgical Care Needs be Met During Global Health Engagements?

John S Oh, Tamara J Worlton, Carolyn Gosztyla

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Article in Developing world bioethics, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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3 authors.

John S OhDepartment of Surgery, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9010-0627
Tamara J WorltonDepartment of Surgery, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Carolyn GosztylaDepartment of Surgery, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Department of Defense has a long history of Global Health Engagement, beginning with identifying and developing vaccines for yellow fever, influenzae, and malaria. Contemporary examples of global health engagement include the worldwide deployment of military assets to aid in natural disasters, and deployment of ship and land based medical teams for short-term medical and surgical engagements. In 2017, the Department of Defense Instruction on Global Health Engagement was published to help guide these efforts. Surgery is an indispensable part of global health and presents unique ethical challenges.

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General SurgeryGlobal HealthHumansInternational CooperationUnited Statesbio‐ethicsglobal health engagementglobal surgery

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PMID42170788
PMCPMC13280964

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