Erschienen in:
01.10.2010
The Academic Discipline of Tropical Surgery
verfasst von:
Michael H. Cotton
Erschienen in:
World Journal of Surgery
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Ausgabe 10/2010
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Excerpt
Over 2 billion people, more than a third of the world’s population, live in the tropics and sub-tropics. In most of the countries of these regions, the risks of injury or death from trauma is hugely greater than in the affluent West. Furthermore, obtaining surgery for eminently curable conditions is difficult, expensive, and often hazardous. An estimate has been given that approximately 11% of the global burden of disease is surgically treatable [
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