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01-01-2017 | Editorial Perspective

Resolutions and Declarations in an Era of Global Surgery

Authors: Kelly McQueen, David A. Watters, Villiami Tangi

Published in: World Journal of Surgery | Issue 1/2017

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Five billion of the world’s 7 billion people do not have access to safe, affordable surgery and anaesthesia care when needed. In 2015, the World Health Assembly (WHA) recognized the importance of the role of emergency and essential surgical care and safe anaesthesia to universal health coverage by unanimously passing resolution 68/15 [1]. Many nations and representative bodies of surgery and anaesthesia collaborated to support the resolution. The Bangkok Declaration is a summary of the events of 2015 that will serve as a reminder to future generations of the history of surgery and anaesthesia within global health, and the great effort behind the Global Surgical Era 2016–30. …

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Title: Resolutions and Declarations in an Era of Global Surgery
Authors: Kelly McQueen
David A. Watters
Villiami Tangi
Publication date: 01-01-2017
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Published in: World Journal of Surgery / Issue 1/2017
Print ISSN: 0364-2313
Electronic ISSN: 1432-2323
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00268-016-3651-6

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