Publications by authors named "Andile Dube"
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to estimate global COVID-19 infections and deaths among healthcare workers during the early pandemic phase, utilizing systematic reviews and comprehensive searches of literature until May 2020.
- A total of 152,888 infections and 1,413 deaths among healthcare workers were reported, with notable differences in gender and job roles: most infections were in women and nurses, while most deaths were among men and doctors.
- The findings highlighted that while Europe had the highest absolute numbers, the Eastern Mediterranean region had the highest death rate per infection, indicating a need for further investigation into the reasons for these variations, especially in high-risk specialties and lower reported rates in regions like Africa and India.
Introduction: In the 5 months since it began, the COVID-19 pandemic has placed extraordinary demands on health systems around the world including surgery. Competing health objectives and resource redeployment threaten to retard the scale-up of surgical services in low- and middle-income countries where access to safe, affordable and timely care is low. The key aspiration of the Lancet Commission on global surgery was promotion of resilience in surgical systems.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The purpose of this observational study is to characterize the use of social media content pertaining to global surgery.
Methods: A search for public posts on social media related to global surgery was performed over a 3-month window, from January 1st, 2019, to March 31st, 2019. Two public domains were included in the search: Instagram and Twitter.