Characterizing the global burden of surgical disease: A method to estimate inguinal hernia epidemiology in Ghana

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 498-503

  Beard, Jessica H ^a   Oresanya, Lawrence B ^a   Ohene Yeboah, Michael ^b   Dicker, Rochelle A ^a   Harris, Hobart W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICE; HERNIORRHAPHY; HUMAN; INGUINAL HERNIA; MALE; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS; UGANDA;

COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH RESOURCES; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HERNIA, INGUINAL; HERNIORRHAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; UGANDA; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84874107446     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-012-1864-x     Document Type: Article

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