Physicians, Poverty, and Profits: Can Robin Hood Finance Health Care in Developing Countries?

Affiliations

¹ World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies, Nyon, Switzerland; Nanotechnology & Smart Systems, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, USA. Electronic address: rja@russelljandrews.org.
² World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies, Nyon, Switzerland; Northwest General Hospital and Medical Center, Peshawar, Pakistan.
³ Independent cross-bench member of the House of Lords and Co-Chair, All Party Parliamentary Group on Global Health, London, United Kingdom.

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Russell J Andrews et al. World Neurosurg. 2017 Mar.

. 2017 Mar:99:786-789.

doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2017.01.020. Epub 2017 Jan 16.

¹ World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies, Nyon, Switzerland; Nanotechnology & Smart Systems, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, USA. Electronic address: rja@russelljandrews.org.
² World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies, Nyon, Switzerland; Northwest General Hospital and Medical Center, Peshawar, Pakistan.
³ Independent cross-bench member of the House of Lords and Co-Chair, All Party Parliamentary Group on Global Health, London, United Kingdom.

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Keywords: Funding mechanisms; Global treatment comparison; Nonprofit neurosurgery; Sociopolitical trends.

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A New Source of Nonprofit Neurosurgical Funding.
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