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Highlights the need to integrate essential surgical care into global child health initiatives to reduce morbidity and mortality.
Key Messages Despite the large role that children’s surgery plays in reducing morbidity and mortality, global child health initiatives have historically focused on nonsurgical diseases. Children’s health care providers and children’s surgery providers can collaborate to improve children’s health through shared values. Long-term investments in surgical workforce development must accompany more immediate measures addressing the current surgical burden. The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery provides a framework to which children’s surgery can harmoniously be integrated. Innovative funding mechanisms may invest to scale cost-effective operations along with ongoing data collection and research.
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