The How Project: understanding contextual challenges to global surgical care provision in low-resource settings.

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Published in BMJ Glob Health on December 16, 2016

Authors

Nakul P Raykar¹^,2^,3, Rachel R Yorlets⁴, Charles Liu¹^,3, Roberta Goldman⁵^,6, Sarah L M Greenberg¹^,7, Meera Kotagal¹^,8, Paul E Farmer¹^,3^,9^,10, John G Meara¹^,4^,3, Nobhojit Roy¹¹^,12, Rowan D Gillies¹

Author Affiliations

1: Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
2: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
3: Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
4: Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
5: Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
6: Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
7: Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
8: University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
9: Partners in Health, Boston, Massachusetts,USA.
10: Brigham and Women's Hospital, Division of Global Health Equity, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
11: BARC Hospital (Government of India), HBNI University, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
12: Health Systems and Policy Research Group, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

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