Building surgical capacity in low-resource countries: A qualitative analysis of task shifting from surgeon volunteers' perspectives

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 108-112

  Aliu, Oluseyi ^a   Corlew, Scott D ^b   Heisler, Michele E ^c   Pannucci, Christopher J ^a   Chung, Kevin C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b RESURGE INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacity building; Delegation; Education; Ethics; Health care workforce; Logistics; Mandate; Providers; Resource allocation; Surgery volunteer organizations; Task shifting

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAPACITY BUILDING; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EDUCATION; ETHICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERVIEW; MALE; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHYSICIAN; PLASTIC SURGERY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; UNITED STATES; VOLUNTEER;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CAPACITY BUILDING; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MEDICAL MISSIONS, OFFICIAL; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; PHYSICIANS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SURGERY, PLASTIC; UNITED STATES; VOLUNTEERS;

EID: 84891550401     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: 15363708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SAP.0b013e31826aefc7     Document Type: Review

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