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Women as a driver to address gaps in the global surgical workforce

Overview of attention for article published in Human Resources for Health, March 2023
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Title
Women as a driver to address gaps in the global surgical workforce
Published in
Human Resources for Health, March 2023
DOI 10.1186/s12960-023-00808-6
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Authors

Isabella Busa, Shobhana Nagraj

Abstract

Five billion people around the world lack access to safe and affordable surgical, anaesthetic, and obstetric care. There is a link between countries in which women are underrepresented in the surgical workforce and those struggling to meet their surgical need. In this commentary article, the underrepresentation of women in low- and middle-income country's (LMIC) surgical workforce is discussed. It is argued that the issue is self-reinforcing. On one hand, active change requires a sufficient number of female surgeons to initiate it. On the other, women can only start to penetrate the surgical workforce once they are safe, healthy, and motivated enough to do so, in turn depending on the presence of female surgeons to advocate for their female patients and empower future generations of young girls and women.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 6 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 2 33%
Other 1 17%
Student > Bachelor 1 17%
Unknown 2 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 2 33%
Chemistry 1 17%
Neuroscience 1 17%
Unknown 2 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 February 2024.
All research outputs
#4,298,010
of 25,394,764 outputs
Outputs from Human Resources for Health
#502
of 1,261 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#79,617
of 427,072 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Human Resources for Health
#11
of 29 outputs
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