Congenital anomalies in low- and middle-income countries:The unborn child of global surgery

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 36-40

  Sitkin, Nicole A ^a   Ozgediz, Doruk ^c   Donkor, Peter ^c   Farmer, Diana L ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISABLED PERSON; ECONOMICS; HEALTH; HUMAN; INCOME; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEWBORN; PLASTIC SURGERY; POVERTY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISABLED PERSONS; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; INCOME; INFANT, NEWBORN; POVERTY; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 84928170393     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-014-2714-9     Document Type: Review

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