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Macroeconomic costs of the unmet burden of surgical disease in Sierra Leone: A retrospective economic analysis
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Objective
The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery estimated that low/middle-income countries will lose an estimated cumulative loss of 12.3 trillion US Dollars from gross domestic product (GDP) due to the unmet burden of surgical disease. However, no country-specific data currently exist. We aimed to estimate the costs to the Sierra Leone economy from death and disability which may have been averted by surgical care.
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We used estimates of total, met and unme...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-017824
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Royal College of Surgeons of England
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BMJ Publishing Group Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMJ Open Journal website
- Volume:
- 8
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- e017824
- Publication date:
- 2018-03-14
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-01-24
- DOI:
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2044-6055
- Source identifiers:
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835443
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- pubs:835443
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- 2018-05-15
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- Lavy et al
- Copyright date:
- 2018
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- © Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2018. All rights reserved. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted. This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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