Surgical and anaesthetic capacity of hospitals in Malawi: Key insights

Health Policy and Planning

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 985-994

  Henry, Jaymie Ang ^a,b   Frenkel, Erica ^c   Borgstein, Eric ^a,d   Mkandawire, Nyengo ^a,d,e   Goddia, Cyril ^f  

^a International Collaboration for Essential Surgery (ICES)   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Gradian Health Systems   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^e FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f QUEEN ELIZABETH CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Malawi)

Author keywords

Anaesthesia; clinical officers; global health; global surgery; Malawi; surgery; surgical burden; surgical capacity; surgical care

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT;

HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HOSPITAL; MALAWI; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION; SURGEON;

ANESTHETICS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HEALTH RESOURCES; HOSPITALS; MALAWI; SURGEONS;

EID: 84943578272     PISSN: 02681080     EISSN: 14602237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czu102     Document Type: Article

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