TY  - JOUR
AU  - Dewan, Michael C
AU  - Rattani, Abbas
AU  - Fieggen, Graham
AU  - Arraez, Miguel A
AU  - Servadei, Franco
AU  - Boop, Frederick A
AU  - Johnson, Walter D
AU  - Warf, Benjamin C
AU  - Park, Kee B
PY  - 2018
DO  - 10.3171/2017.11.JNS171500
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10668/12404
T2  - Journal of neurosurgery
AB  - Worldwide disparities in the provision of surgical care result in otherwise preventable disability and death. There is a growing need to quantify the global burden of neurosurgical disease specifically, and the workforce necessary to meet this demand....
LA  - en
PB  - American Association of Neurological Surgeons
KW  - HICs = high-income countries
KW  - LMICs = low and middle-income countries
KW  - PGSSC = Program in Global Surgery and Social Change
KW  - TBI = traumatic brain injury
KW  - TSI = traumatic spinal injury
KW  - WFNS = World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies
KW  - Capacity
KW  - Epidemiology
KW  - Global
KW  - Incidence
KW  - Volume
KW  - Workforce
KW  - Worldwide
KW  - Neurosurgeons
KW  - Developing Countries
KW  - Epilepsy
KW  - Stroke
KW  - Brain Injuries, Traumatic
KW  - Hydrocephalus
TI  - Global neurosurgery: the current capacity and deficit in the provision of essential neurosurgical care. Executive Summary of the Global Neurosurgery Initiative at the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change.
TY  - research article
ER  -