TY - JOUR
T1 - Investments in surgical systems contribute to pandemic readiness and health system resilience
AU - Bouchard, Megan E.
AU - Sheneman, Natalie
AU - Hey, Matthew T.
AU - Hoemeke, Laura
AU - Abdullah, Fizan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.
PY - 2021/9
Y1 - 2021/9
N2 - Safe surgical care, including anesthesia, obstetrics, and trauma, is an essential component of a functional health system, yet five billion people lack access to high-quality, timely and affordable surgical care. As health decision makers are grappling with how to make appropriate investments for crisis readiness and resilience, investments in surgical care should be considered for their compounding benefits to meet a country’s diverse health goals. National Surgical, Obstetric, and Anesthesia Plans (NSOAPs) are developed through global partnerships and multi-stakeholder consensus and provide a dynamic framework for surgical scale-up that also improves the resilience of the larger health system. Our paper applies principles from the literature on health system resilience to surgical systems and examines the unique capabilities of the surgical workforce and infrastructure to be redeployed during times of crisis, using examples from the current pandemic.
AB - Safe surgical care, including anesthesia, obstetrics, and trauma, is an essential component of a functional health system, yet five billion people lack access to high-quality, timely and affordable surgical care. As health decision makers are grappling with how to make appropriate investments for crisis readiness and resilience, investments in surgical care should be considered for their compounding benefits to meet a country’s diverse health goals. National Surgical, Obstetric, and Anesthesia Plans (NSOAPs) are developed through global partnerships and multi-stakeholder consensus and provide a dynamic framework for surgical scale-up that also improves the resilience of the larger health system. Our paper applies principles from the literature on health system resilience to surgical systems and examines the unique capabilities of the surgical workforce and infrastructure to be redeployed during times of crisis, using examples from the current pandemic.
KW - Health system resilience
KW - Pandemic readiness
KW - Surgical investment
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U2 - 10.1057/s41271-021-00292-z
DO - 10.1057/s41271-021-00292-z
M3 - Review article
C2 - 34193939
AN - SCOPUS:85115452831
VL - 42
SP - 493
EP - 500
JO - Journal of Public Health Policy
JF - Journal of Public Health Policy
SN - 0197-5897
IS - 3
ER -