Barriers to surgical care in Nepal.

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Published in BMC Health Serv Res on January 23, 2017

Authors

Joris Adriaan Frank van Loenhout1, Tefera Darge Delbiso2, Shailvi Gupta3, Kapendra Amatya4, Adam L Kushner5,6,7, Julita Gil Cuesta2, Debarati Guha-Sapir2

Author Affiliations

1: Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, Université Catholique de Louvain, School of Public Health, Clos Chapelle-aux-Champs 30, 1200 Woluwé-Saint-Lambert, Brussels, Belgium. Joris.vanloenhout@uclouvain.be.
2: Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, Université Catholique de Louvain, School of Public Health, Clos Chapelle-aux-Champs 30, 1200 Woluwé-Saint-Lambert, Brussels, Belgium.
3: Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco East Bay, Oakland, CA, USA.
4: Department of Surgical Oncology, Nepal Cancer Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal.
5: Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
6: Department of Surgery, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
7: Surgeons OverSeas, New York, NY, USA.

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