The Optimal Distribution of Surgery in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Proposed Matrix for Determining Country-Level Organization of Surgical Services - A Response to the Recent Commentaries

Affiliations

• ¹ Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
• ² General Surgery Department, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA, USA.
• ³ Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
• ⁴ Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
• ⁵ Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, NY, USA.
• ⁶ University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
• ⁷ Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
• ⁸ Department of Plastic and Oral Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
• ⁹ Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, MA, USA.