A Crucial Role for Surgery in Reaching the UN Millennium Development Goals
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Date
2008
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PLoS Med
Abstract
In the June 2008 issue of PLoS
Medicine, Doruk Ozgediz and
Robert Riviello made a convincing
case that surgical conditions should
be considered as “neglected diseases”
disproportionately affecting the world’s
poorest people [1]. “Patients with
untreated surgical conditions,” they
wrote, “as well as the local clinicians
struggling to care for them, must gain
greater recognition by the global public
health community.” We welcome their
call to bring surgery into the global
health conversation.
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Surgery, UN Millennium Development Goals
Citation
The PLoS Medicine Editors (2008) A crucial role for surgery in reaching the UN Millennium Development Goals. PLoS Med 5(8): e182. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0050182