Journal article
Disparities in surgical care for children across Brazil: Use of geospatial analysis
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Health systems for surgical care for children in low- and middle-income countries remain poorly understood. Our goal was to characterize the delivery of surgical care for children across Brazil and to identify associations between surgical resources and childhood mortality.
METHODS: We performed a cross-sectional, ecological study to analyze surgical care for children in the public health system (Sistema Único de Saúde) across …
Authors
Vissoci JRN; Ong CT; de Andrade L; Rocha TAH; da Silva NC; Poenaru D; Smith ER; Rice HE
Journal
PLOS ONE, Vol. 14, No. 8,
Publisher
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0220959
ISSN
1932-6203