Erschienen in:
18.03.2020 | Editorial Perspective
Sex Disparities in the Global Burden of Surgical Disease
verfasst von:
Brittany L. Powell, Rebecca Luckett, Abebe Bekele, Tiffany E. Chao
Erschienen in:
World Journal of Surgery
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Ausgabe 7/2020
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Excerpt
The 2015 Lancet Commission on Global Surgery and 2015 Global Burden of Disease study provide evidence for the increasing relative burden of noncommunicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), including surgical conditions such as injuries, gastrointestinal diseases, and cancer [
1,
2]. While many of these conditions affect both men and women, women bear a large burden of sex-specific surgical disease. …