Global Health Council 37th Annual Conference: Dateline 2010: Global Health Goals

Presenters Discuss:
the role of surgical care in WHO's new primary health care initiative; recent efforts by WHO to develop surgical care in low and middle income countries; ongoing efforts to prioritize surgical care in low and middle income countries; and barriers to the delivery of district level surgical and anesthetic services in low and middle income countries, including capacity (infrastructure, physical resources, and human resources for health), and quality, mapping of the capacity for services at the facilities level as a means to strengthen a countries health information system and how surgery and anesthesia may be integrated into primary health care reforms (Low and middle income countries).