Global Surgery Indicators
This special task team set a global health goal to ensure that 80% of the world’s population has access to safe, affordable surgical and anaesthesia care when needed by 2030. It also published a landmark global surgery study in 2015.
What is the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery?
This type of hospital is supposed to do essential and emergency surgery and is closest to communities.
What is the district hospital?
This type of study is done on data collected already.
What is a retrospective study or audit?
The system of institutionalized racial segregation and discrimination that was in place in South Africa from 1948 until the early 1990s.
What is apartheid?
The number of people who die within 30 days after surgery, a key indicator used to measure surgical safety and outcomes.
What is perioperative mortality?
The term used for when non-specialists are supervised by specialists in person or remotely to deliver clinical care.
What is task sharing?
This type of study collects data in real time.
What is a prospective study?
The first Black president of South Africa, who was elected in 1994 after the end of apartheid.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
The proportion of the global population lacking access to essential surgical services within two hours of their home.
What is 5 billion?
The district hospital is lacking this type of specialist which makes surgical delivery difficult.
What is a surgeon (or an anethesiologist/ or ob/gyn)?
This type of data collection tool is usually standardised across many hospitals and collects data in real time without an endpoint on a specific condition or set of conditions. It is costly to maintain but can be used for quality improvement, monitoring and evaluation, and research.
What is a registry?
This mountain overlooks Cape Town and is one of South Africa’s most famous landmarks.
What is Table Mountain?
The most common surgical intervention performed worldwide.
What is a caesarean section?
The global surgery indicator that describes the ideal time it takes for geographic access to care.
What is 2 hour access?
The type of quantitative research design collects data from as many facilities as possible for a short and specified amount of time. There have been large global surgery studies done this way including ASOS, HIPPO, and other cohort studies done by the GlobalSurg unit at the University of Birmingham.
What is a sprint?
The year in which South Africa hosted the FIFA World Cup, becoming the first African nation to do so.
What is 2010?
The term for a condition that requires surgical intervention but remains untreated or under-treated, leading to long-term disability or death.
What is a surgical backlog or unmet surgical need?
The tool used to measure surgical, anesthetic, and obstetric capacity in low-resource settings.
What is the WHO Surgical Assessment Tool (SAT)?
The process of selecting a subset of individuals from a population to estimate characteristics of the whole population.
What is sampling?
This language, derived from Dutch, is one of South Africa's 11 official languages and is widely spoken in the Western Cape.
What is Afrikaans?