January Meeting Resources
January Meeting Suggested General Readings
Open-access articles
The Lancet Commission on Investing in Health
Key Aspects of Health Policy Development to Improve Surgical Services in Uganda
Increasing Access to Surgical Services in Sub-Saharan Africa: Priorities for National and International Agencies Recommended by the Bellagio Essential Surgery Group
Non open-access articles
Redefining global health-care delivery
Measuring the Quality of Surgical Care: Structure, Process, or Outcomes?
January Meeting Optional Specific Readings
Open-access articles
Burden of Disease
Disease Control Priorities, Second Edition: Surgery
Political Priorities
Generating Political Priority for Maternal Mortality Reduction in 5 Developing Countries
Finance and Economics
Effect of Payments for Health Care on Poverty Estimates in 11 Countries in Asia: An Analysis of Household Survey Data
Tracking Official Development Assistance for Reproductive Health in Conflict-Affected Countries
Human Resource and Funding Constraints for Essential Surgery in District Hospitals in Africa: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Survey
Cost Effectiveness of Strategies to Combat Vision and Hearing Loss in Sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia: Mathematical Modelling Study
Healthcare Delivery and Management
WHO Report: Strengthening Health Systems to Improve Outcomes
An Opportunity for Diagonal Development in Global Surgery: Cleft Lip and Palate Care in Resource-Limited Settings
Scarcity of Healthcare Worker Protection in Eight Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Surgery and the risk of HIV and Other Bloodborne Pathogens
Doctors Without Orders
Information Management
Indicators of the Quality of Trauma Care and the Performance of Trauma Systems
Paediatric Surgery and Anaesthesia in South-Western Uganda: A Cross-Sectional Survey
Standardised Metrics for Global Surgical Surveillance
The United Nations Process Indicators for Emergency Obstetric Care: Reflections Based on a Decade of Experience
Workforce, Education and Training
Surgical Task Shifting in Sub-Saharan Africa
Human Resources for Health: Overcoming the Crisis
Health professionals for a New Century: Transforming Education to Strengthen Health Systems in an Interdependent World
Comparison of Clinical Officers with Medical Doctors on Outcomes of Caesarean Section in the Developing World
WHO Report: Working Together for Health
WHO Report: Monitoring Building Blocks of Health Systems
Non-Open Access Articles
Finance and Economics
Cost-Effectiveness of Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review
A Cost-Effective Small Hospital in Bangladesh: what it can mean for emergency obstetric care
Healthcare Delivery and Management
Comprehensive National Analysis of Emergency and Essential Surgical Capacity in Rwanda