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A Stepwise Approach to Universal Health Coverage: Embracing Comprehensive Patient-Centered Management
A commentary on a stepwise path to universal health coverage built around comprehensive, patient-centred management.
World Journal of Surgery · March 2025
Scalable policy adoption and sustainable implementation of surgical care in the Americas
Summarises a 2023 meeting in Ecuador, held alongside the PAHO Directing Council, on strengthening surgical systems in the Americas, and argues that national surgical plans can help build resilient health systems.
Pan American Journal of Public Health · April 2024
Global Neurosurgery: Progress and Resolutions at the 75th World Health Assembly
Reviews progress in global neurosurgery advocacy around the 75th World Health Assembly in 2022, including work towards a resolution on folic acid fortification to prevent spina bifida.
Neurosurgery · February 2023
Overcoming Barriers to Accessing Surgery and Rehabilitation in Low and Middle-Income Countries: An Innovative Model of Patient Navigation in Nepal
Describes a patient navigation project in Nepal that helped children from remote areas reach hospitals in Kathmandu for cardiac surgery and rehabilitation by arranging referrals, travel and lodging and counselling families.
World Journal of Surgery · April 2021