中国体育彩票

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Centre for Global Surgery
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Research

The core mandate of the centre is research with teaching/learning and policy/advocacy as secondary pillars. 


Active Projects?

Delays to Access Care

  • Identifying barriers and enablers to increasing the surgical capacity of Rural District Hospitals in the Northern Cape.
  • Identifying barriers to accessing health care for chronic wounds in the Khayelitsha sub-district: A mixed methods study
  • Time to regional surgical care in rural South Africa
  • Time to accessing breast cancer in Cape Metro West
  • The Risk Factors for Unresected Gastric Adencarcinoma in South Africa: A National Cancer Registry Analysis
  • Colorectal cancer resection rates in South Africa
  • Exploring pathways to accessing care for appendectomy in the Western Cape Government Health System, South Africa
  • Referral pathways and time to care for injured patients admitted to hospitals in urban and rural South Africa

Health System Strengthening

  • Emergency Medical Services for trauma before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Cape Town, South Africa
  • Incidence of lower limb amputations among diabetic patients in low- and middle-income countries
  • Fracture evaluation management and understanding research (FEMUR)
  • Assessing barriers to equitable access to quality care and patient outcomes
  • Injury pathway modelling
  • Exploring caesarean sections from a training perspective for low- and middle-income countries
  • Post-injury survival, patient reported quality of life and the cost-effectiveness of injury care in South Africa
  • Types and mechanisms of traumatic injuries and related risk factors influencing length of hospital stay for patients in South African hospitals
  • Interpersonal violence and related risk factors in rural and urban South Africa
  • Mixed methods assessment of quality of injury care in South Africa
  • Governance and political landscape of injury care in South Africa
  • ?Bellwether capacity of district hospitals in South Africa: A cross-sectional survey

Community-Based Research

  • Exploring the role of indigenous knowledge healers in Diabetes Mellitus and Foot Infections screening in the Rural Eastern Cape
  • The role of indigenous knowledge healers in surgical care in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
  • Identifying stakeholder needs for embedding sustainable solutions around injury care
  • Creating equitable surgical access in rural South Africa: community screening and clinic referrals for diabetic foot infection in rural Eastern Cape
  • Improving surgical care: exploring potential collaborations between the indigenous and formal health sectors 
  • From theory to practice: how a rural South African community translated research to action in injury healthcare?

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