Strengthening health systems through surgery

Affiliations

¹ Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK dion.morton@uhb.nhs.uk.
² Department of Community Health Sciences, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.

^# Contributed equally.

Editorial

Dion G Morton et al. BMJ Glob Health. 2024.

. 2024 Nov 7;9(Suppl 4):e017782.

doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2024-017782.

¹ Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK dion.morton@uhb.nhs.uk.
² Department of Community Health Sciences, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.

^# Contributed equally.

No abstract available

Keywords: Global health; Health economics; Health policies and all other topics.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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