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Climate Change, Global Surgery, and G20 Nations

Climate Change, Global Surgery, and G20 Nations

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Integrating surgical care into national health plans can help G20 nations achieve their sustainable development goals

How Pediatric Surgery Could Help India Reach Its Development Goals

How Pediatric Surgery Could Help India Reach Its Development Goals

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Confronting barriers to pediatric surgical care access should be a major priority

Aesthetic Procedures Are at an All-Time High, but People Are Getting Left Behind

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As the aesthetic industry grows, let’s not forget the reconstructive origin ethos of plastic surgery

Aesthetic Procedures Are at an All-Time High, but People Are Getting Left Behind

From Scalpels to Security

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Examining the intersection of global surgery, climate change, and human security

From Scalpels to Security

A Lot of Talk but No Seat at the Table

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Surgery at the World Health Assembly

A Lot of Talk but No Seat at the Table

Five Billion Reasons for Ramping Up Global Surgery

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Creating surgical and anesthesia capacity is a win for pandemic preparedness

Five Billion Reasons for Ramping Up Global Surgery

Climate Change and Global Surgery

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Access to surgical care doesn't have to harm the environment and future generations

Climate Change and Global Surgery

Investing in Surgery, Closing A Global Health Gap

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Access to surgery can keep treatable conditions, such as a common fracture, from becoming lifelong disabilities

Investing in Surgery, Closing A Global Health Gap

Scaling up Surgery and Anesthesia, Post-Coronavirus

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Expanding access to surgery and anesthesia globally would be a win–win for health security and universal health coverage

An intubated patient tries to gesture at a medical worker holding his hand at the Sotiria hospital ICU during the coronavirus outbreak, in Athens, Greece, on April 25, 2020. Picture shows the hand of a patient in a hospital bed being held by the blue-gloved hand of a medical worker. REUTERS/Giorgos Moutafis

The WHO's Unheralded Role in Surgery

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Why does the WHO matter? Its global health coordination makes surgical care more affordable and effective for everyone

People waiting for treatment at a hospital after undergoing cataract removals from a free but shoddy eye surgery camp that caused them to lose their vision—in Amritsar, India, on December 5, 2014. The photo shows several people sitting on hospital beds. One man in the foreground is wearing dark glasses. REUTERS/Munish Sharma