Responding to the Global Injury Burden by Improving Access to Orthopaedic Medical Devices: A Qualitative Case Study of Orthopaedic Services in Uganda

The global burden of injury is severely underappreciated and disproportionately affects low-income countries. With timely, appropriate orthopaedic treatment disability and mortality can be prevented, yet appropriate health resources are seldom available. Without orthopaedic medical devices (OMDs), q...

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Main Author: Bouchard, Maryse
Other Authors: Kohler, Jillian Clare
Language:en_ca
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/30520