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47. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft der Plastischen, Rekonstruktiven und Ästhetischen Chirurgen (DGPRÄC), 21. Jahrestagung der Vereinigung der Deutschen Ästhetisch-Plastischen Chirurgen (VDÄPC)

08.09. - 10.09.2016, Kassel

The Role of Plastic Surgeons in Advancing Global Development

Meeting Abstract

  • presenting/speaker P. Niclas Broer - Klinikum Bogenhausen, Plastische und Rekonstructive Chirurgie, München, Deutschland
  • Hillary E Jenny - Department of Plastic and Oral Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
  • Joshua S. Ng-Kamstra - Harvard Medical School, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Boston, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
  • Sabrina Juran - Klinikum Bogenhausen, Plastische und Rekonstructive Chirurgie, München, Deutschland; United Nations Population Fund, New York, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika

Deutsche Gesellschaft der Plastischen, Rekonstruktiven und Ästhetischen Chirurgen. Vereinigung der Deutschen Ästhetisch-Plastischen Chirurgen. 47. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft der Plastischen, Rekonstruktiven und Ästhetischen Chirurgen (DGPRÄC), 21. Jahrestagung der Vereinigung der Deutschen Ästhetisch-Plastischen Chirurgen (VDÄPC). Kassel, 08.-10.09.2016. Düsseldorf: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House; 2016. Doc133

doi: 10.3205/16dgpraec133, urn:nbn:de:0183-16dgpraec1336

Veröffentlicht: 27. September 2016

© 2016 Broer et al.
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Gliederung

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In September 2015, the international community came together to agree on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These 17 goals are part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, a plan of action for people, the planet, and prosperity. Ambitious and farreachingas they are, they are built on three keystones: the elimination of extreme poverty, fighting climate change, and a commitment to fighting injustice and inequality. In that context, there is increasing need to acknowledge the linkage between universal delivery of and access to safe and affordable surgical care, global health and development. Critical to the achievement of the SDGs is the global realization of access to safe, affordable surgical and anesthesia care when needed. As a community of care providers dedicated to the restoration of the form and function of the human body, plastics surgeons have a collective opportunity to contribute to global development, making the world more equitable and helping to reduce extreme poverty. Critical to the achievement of the Agenda is the global realization of access to safe, affordable surgical and anesthesia care when needed. In 2008, Drs. Paul Farmer and Jim Kim identified surgery as the “neglected stepchild of global health” referring to the relative underfunding and lack of priority accorded surgical care. The landmark report by the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery estimated that between 28 and 32 percent of the global burden of disease is amenable to surgical treatment. However, as many as five billion people lack access to safe, timely, and affordable surgical care, a burden felt most severely in low and middle income countries (LMICs). Untreated, these conditions cause premature mortality and are a source of lifetime disability—surgical conditions claim an estimated 16.9 million lives per year. The Lancet Commission estimates that an additional 143 million surgeries would be necessary every year to save lives and prevent disability from surgical conditions. Building surgical capacity is not just important for preventing morbidity and mortality—lack of access to surgery impedes human freedoms and impacts global development and economic growth. Surgery, and specifically plastic surgery, should be incorporated into the international development and humanitarian agenda. As a community of care providers dedicated to the restoration of the form and function of the human body, plastics surgeons have a collective opportunity to contribute to global development, making the world more equitable and helping to reduce extreme poverty. As surgical disease comprises a significant burden of disease and surgery can be delivered in a cost effective manner, surgery must be considered a public health priority.