The Correlation Between Poverty and Access to Essential Surgical Care in Ghana: A Geospatial Analysis

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• 作者：Gavin Tansley ; Barclay T. Stewart ; Adam Gyedu ; Godfred Boakye…
• 刊名：World Journal of Surgery
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：41
• 期：3
• 页码：639-643
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• 刊物类别：Medicine
• 刊物主题：Surgery; Abdominal Surgery; Cardiac Surgery; General Surgery; Thoracic Surgery; Vascular Surgery;
• 出版者：Springer International Publishing
• ISSN：1432-2323
• 卷排序：41

文摘

BackgroundSurgical disease burden falls disproportionately on individuals in low- and middle-income countries. These populations are also the least likely to have access to surgical care. Understanding the barriers to access in these populations is therefore necessary to meet the global surgical need.