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Burden of Surgical Disease: Strategies to Manage an Existing Public Health Emergency

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

K.A. Kelly McQueen ,
Parveen Parmar ,
Mamata Kene ,
Sam Broaddus ,
Kathleen Casey ,
Kathryn Chu ,
Joseph A. Hyder ,
Alexandra Mihailovic ,
Nadine Semer  and
Stephen Sullivan
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K.A. Kelly McQueen*
Affiliation:
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard University; Valley Anesthesiology Consultants, Phoenix, Arizona USA
Parveen Parmar
Affiliation:
International Emergency Medicine Fellow, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative/Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts USA
Mamata Kene
Affiliation:
International Emergency Medicine Fellow, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative/Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts USA
Sam Broaddus
Affiliation:
Director, Division of Urology, Maine Medical Center, Portland, Maine USA
Kathleen Casey
Affiliation:
Director, Operation Giving Back, American College of Surgeons
Kathryn Chu
Affiliation:
Médecins sans Frontières, 49 Jorissen St. Braamfontein 2017, Johannesburg, South Africa
Joseph A. Hyder
Affiliation:
Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts USA
Alexandra Mihailovic
Affiliation:
General Surgery/Critical Care Clinical Fellow and Research Fellow in Clinical Epidemiology University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Canada
Nadine Semer
Affiliation:
Southern California Permanente Medical Group, Pasadena, California USA
Stephen Sullivan
Affiliation:
Department of Plastic and Oral Surgery and the Craniofacial Centre, Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts USA
Thomas Weiser
Affiliation:
Research Fellow, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts USA
Frederick M. Burkle Jr.
Affiliation:
Senior Fellow, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts USA
*
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative4134 N 49th Place Phoenix, Arizona 85018 USA E-mail kamcqueen@gmail.com
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Abstract

The World Health Organization estimates that the burden of surgical disease due to war, self-inflicted injuries, and road traffic incidents will rise dramatically by 2020. During the 2009 Harvard Humanitarian Initiative's Humanitarian Action Summit (HHI/HAS), members of the Burden of Surgical Disease Working Group met to review the state of surgical epidemiology, the unmet global surgical need, and the role international organizations play in filling the surgical gap during humanitarian crises, conflict, and war. An outline of the group's findings and recommendations is provided.

Keywords

burden of surgical diseasehumanitarian assistancesurgery in developing countries
Type
Working Group 6
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 24 , supplement S2: 2009 Humanitarian Action Summit , August 2009 , pp. s228 - s231
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2009

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