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WHAT EFFECT CAN WHAT EFFECT CAN SURGEONS HAVE ON SURGEONS HAVE ON WORLD HEALTH?WORLD HEALTH?
Professor Harold Ellis Medical Student Prize for Surgery
Presenter: Aimun JamjoomUniversity: Nottingham Medical School
Accounting for inattentionAccounting for inattention
Emphasis has been on primary prevention and community health education
Concerned with communicable diseasesConsidered too cost ineffective, high tech
and individually focused
In realityIn reality
Account 11% of entire disease burdenEstimated to equate to 164 million
disability-adjusted life years234 million operations performed in 2002
GIEESCGIEESC
Established in December 2005Increase collaborationStrengthen capacity to deliver
effective surgical treatment