Barriers to surgery performed by non-physician clinicians in sub-Saharan Africa—a scoping review

Abstract Background Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) faces the highest burden of disease amenable to surgery while having the lowest surgeon to population ratio in the world. Some 25 SSA countries use surgical task-shifting from physicians to non-physician clinicians (NPCs) as a strategy to increase access...

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
الحاوية / القاعدة:Human Resources for Health
المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Phylisha van Heemskerken, Henk Broekhuizen, Jakub Gajewski, Ruairí Brugha, Leon Bijlmakers
التنسيق: مقال
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: BMC 2020-07-01
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الوصول للمادة أونلاين:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12960-020-00490-y