Improving global emergency and essential surgical care in Latin America and the Caribbean: A collaborative approach

摘要

In an era of sustainable development goals (SDGs), members of the global surgery, obstetric, and anesthesia (SOA) workforce have grown increasingly aware of its collective role in achieving universal health coverage (UHC). The combined results of Disease Control Priorities Number Three, The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery (LCoGS), and the World Health Assembly (WHA) Resolutions 68.15 and 70.35—which strengthen emergency and essential surgical care and anesthesia as a component of UHC and contribute to the progress of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development—jointly contribute to a paradigm shift in global surgery. We are moving away from vertical initiatives focused on a single disease and toward transdisciplinary and cross-sectoral collaborations aimed at strengthening health care systems in a horizontal fashion without disease-specific silos.