The Burden of Surgical Disease
The WHO defines this as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely absence of disease or infirmity.
What is health?
This RE-AIM dimension assesses the absolute number, proportion, and representativeness of individuals who are willing to participate in a given initiative, intervention, or program.
What is Reach?
The art and practice of improving equitable access to surgical care for all.
What is Global Surgery?
Refers to shared patient responsibility between a specialist and non-specialist or mid-level providers.
What is surgical task-sharing?
The system of institutionalized racial segregation and discrimination that was in place in South Africa from 1948 until the early 1990s.
What is Apartheid?
This metric reflects premature mortality that considers both the frequency of deaths and the age at which they occur.
What is Years of Life Lost (YLL)?
This RE-AIM dimension assesses the impact of an intervention on important outcomes, including potential negative effects, quality of life, and economic outcomes.
What is Effectiveness?
An international Organisation that acts as a stakeholder for Global Surgery as effective agents for advocacy and change.
Who is the WHO/Unitar/Unicef/The World Bank?
The provision of healthcare related services over a distance, using electronic and telecommunication technologies.
What is Telemedicine?
The first Black president of South Africa, who was elected in 1994 after the end of apartheid.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
This metric is used to quantify the health loss associated with living with a condition, considering the severity of the disability.
What is Years Lived with Disability (YLD)?
This RE-AIM dimension assesses the absolute number, proportion, and representativeness of settings who are willing to participate in a given initiative, intervention, or program.
What is Adoption?
People responsible for legislation and funding supporting the development of health system structures at the community and national level.
Who is government policymakers?
A set of rules that can help streamline care and have been shown to improve patients’ outcomes.
What is a Protocol?
This mountain overlooks Cape Town and is one of South Africa’s most famous landmarks.
What is Table Mountain?
This metric combines YLL and YLD to quantify the burden of disease.
What is Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs)?
This RE-AIM dimension assesses the consistency of delivery of the intervention or program as it is intended.
What is Implementation?
The people who serve as local advocates and help provide specific guidance towards local resources and needs.
Who are clinicians?
Specialists available in person or traveling to first level hospitals to provide advice or teaching.
What is a mentor?
The year in which South Africa hosted the FIFA World Cup, becoming the first African nation to do so.
When is 2010?
Surgery can address this percentage of global DALYs.
What is 11%?
This RE-AIM dimension assesses the extent to which a program or policy becomes institutionalized or part of the routine organizational practices and policies.
What is Maintenance?
Trusted members with close understandings of the communities they serve. They act as liaisons between community and social services.
Who are Community Health Workers? (CHW)
A facility that is the backbone of essential and emergency surgical care. They should be able to perform the Bellwether procedures.
What is a District Hospital?
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?