Global community perception of 'surgical care' as a public health issue: a cross sectional survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the last decade surgical care has been propelled into the public health domain with the establishment of a World Health Organisation (WHO) designated programme and key publications. The passing of the historic World Health Assembly Resolution (WHA) acknowledged surgical care as a vital component towards achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC). We conducted the first worldwide survey to explore the perception of surgical care as a public health issue.

Method

The anonymous, cross sectional survey targeted worldwide participants across a range of professional backgrounds, including non-medical using virtual snowball sampling method (in English) using Google Forms (Google Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA) from 20th February 2019 to 25th June 2019. The survey question

SUBMITTER: Lubis N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8139156 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature