Dataset Information

Towards defining the surgical workforce for children: a geospatial analysis in Brazil.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The optimal size of the health workforce for children's surgical care around the world remains poorly defined. The goal of this study was to characterise the surgical workforce for children across Brazil, and to identify associations between the surgical workforce and measures of childhood health.

Design

This study is an ecological, cross-sectional analysis using data from the Brazil public health system (Sistema Único de Saúde).

Settings and participants

We collected data on the surgical workforce (paediatric surgeons, general surgeons, anaesthesiologists and nursing staff), perioperative mortality rate (POMR) and under-5 mortality rate (U5MR) across Brazil for 2015.