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Lancet Commission on Global Surgery (LCoGS)
Data Gathering Projects
[email protected]://www.globalsurgery.info
Five primary data collection projects
Qualitative Interview Project (The How Project)
Surgeon Mapping
● Ministry of Health (MOH) Interview
● Online Provider
● Management “How” Project
How… PurposePublished Research
Specific groupsSpecific TopicsPoor Data
Opinions of those actually doing the work
WHY? To HOW?
How InterviewsSemi-Structured interviews
Concentrates on Operational Challenges in Access, Service Delivery and Policy
Interviewer has some knowledge
Searching for Themes and Examples
Intentionally open ended
Reaches saturation quite early
Can be used by Local MOH
Qualitative Interview Project (How Project)
How Project
Requirements, Can You Help?
Someone to do the interviews, local language
People to interview
Clearance
Realistic expectation of time. Interviews started in the next few weeks…Results by second week in August
Provider Survey Purpose: To seek input and opinions from surgical and
anesthesia providers in low- and middle-income countries regarding how to improve delivery of surgical care
Over 500 surveys from 59 countries, South Africa and Nigeria
Survey is available in 6 languages: French, Spanish, English, Arabic, Russian, Chinese
Need assistance is survey distribution – we would like to reach as many people in as many different countries as possible
Survey Links (we will email them to you)
English: https://redcap.tch.harvard.edu/redcap_edc/surveys/?s=xfGAw8UA9r
Spanish: https://redcap.tch.harvard.edu/redcap_edc/surveys/?s=XJZvP4p7m3
French: https://redcap.tch.harvard.edu/redcap_edc/surveys/?s=2Annw9B63f
Russian: https://redcap.tch.harvard.edu/redcap_edc/surveys/?s=X9F93K4hDi
Arabic: https://redcap.tch.harvard.edu/redcap_edc/surveys/?s=V7fytJNja4
Chinese: https://redcap.tch.harvard.edu/redcap_edc/surveys/?s=z9iZpPMx7w
Management Questionnaire
People in this room,
People you know
30 minutes
Phone, skype, even email
Ministry of Health Qualitative Interview• Purpose: discuss and identify health priorities, data collection and
use pertaining to surgery and anesthesia, research agendas and metrics feasibility
• Botswana, Brazil, China, Ecuador, Ghana, Haiti, Kenya, Lithuania, Malawi, Mexico, Mongolia, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papa New Guinea, Peru, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Somaliland, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
MOH Interviews Current top five priorities in your regional or national
health plan.
Is access to surgery and anaesthesia included within your national or regional health plan?
Do you record or collect any data pertaining to surgery on a national or regional level?
In your opinion, what would be the most helpful thing the Commission could do to help improve delivery of surgical care?
Does your country have the following information? Number of surgeons/obstetricians/anaesthesia/nurses/facilities
RequirementsA person at the ministry with knowledge of data
collection
Introduction, permission and contact details
Do the interview yourself, and send on the results
Time, Interview done by the end of July
Background InformationSurgeon Mapping
We are trying to answer the question: What percentage of the population has access to safe surgery and anesthesia, when
needed?● There are multiple assumptions that are being used in order to answer this question in a
meaningful way● Given realities of data availability, the plan is to initially focus on surgeon-provider locations
and count populations that live within two-hours of road access● We are using the NASA/Columbia University SEDAC Population Estimation Tool to calculate
populations and Google Maps to identify 2-hour driving ranges
Project ScopeSurgeon Mapping
Project ScopeSurgeon Mapping
Surgeon Mapping
Surgeon MappingLocation and numbers of surgical providers
Underway beginning of July
Finished by end of July for processing
SummaryHow Project in Your Country?
a commitment, but worth it….sign up
Provider Survey a few hours of work
Management Interviews we need you!
Minister of Health Interviews we need your connections and authority
Surgeon Mapping The start of something?
Please get in touch if you think you can help
SIGN UPDon’t leave the Room!
We look forward to hearing from you.
[email protected]://www.globalsurgery.info