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The Neglected Hospital — The District Hospital’s Central Role in Global Health Care Delivery

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  • Ruma Rajbhandari, M.D., M.P.H.,
  • Devon E. McMahon, B.A.,
  • Joseph J. Rhatigan, M.D.,
  • and Paul E. Farmer, M.D., Ph.D.

Advancing emerging surgery, noncommunicable-disease, and quality agendas in global health will be possible only if investments are aimed at strengthening an undervalued component of health systems in low- and lower-middle-income countries: the district hospital.

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Author Affiliations

From the Department of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women’s Hospital (R.R., J.J.R., P.E.F.), and Harvard Medical School (D.E.M.) — both in Boston; and Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, MA (R.R.).

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