Global neurosurgical workforce density-you cannot improve what you do not measure

Ulrick Sidney Kanmounye; Adam Ammar; Myron Rolle; Abdessamad El Ouahabi; Kee B Park

doi:10.1186/s41016-021-00252-2

Global neurosurgical workforce density-you cannot improve what you do not measure

Chin Neurosurg J. 2021 Aug 1;7(1):33. doi: 10.1186/s41016-021-00252-2.

Authors

Ulrick Sidney Kanmounye¹, Adam Ammar^{2

3}, Myron Rolle^{2

4}, Abdessamad El Ouahabi⁵, Kee B Park²

Affiliations

¹ Global Neurosurgery Initiative, Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, 641 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA. ulricksidney@gmail.com.
² Global Neurosurgery Initiative, Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, 641 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
³ Department of Neurosurgery, Montefiore Medical Center, University Hospital for Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
⁴ Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
⁵ Department of Neurosurgery, CHU Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco.

Abstract

Five million neurosurgical cases go untreated each year. This is in part due to the lack of neurosurgical care providers. The World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies has spearheaded efforts to monitor the number of neurosurgical providers around the globe since 2016. In this perspective, we discuss why, when, and how the neurosurgical workforce should be measured.

Keywords: Global neurosurgery; Global surgery; Low- and middle-income countries; Neurosurgery; Workforce density.

Publication types

Letter