The Need for Health Policy Training for Surgeons.

The Need for Health Policy Training for Surgeons.

Publication date: Jul 01, 2024

Improvements in surgery at a systems level can be mediated by effective health policy. We reviewed three contemporary challenges in surgical care to understand the potential role of health policy. The pandemic-related backlog, and international economic and logistical challenges to surgical care may be improved through policy change and advocacy by surgeons. A surgeon-policy expert training pathway and professional role will ensure surgeons contribute meaningfully to health policy development.

Concepts Keywords
Backlog COVID-19
Improved General Surgery
Pandemic Health Policy
Surgeons health policy
Training healthcare economics
Humans
medical education
Surgeons
surgical backlog
surgical care

Semantics

Type Source Name
disease VO effective
disease MESH COVID-19

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