RT Journal
A1 Beveridge, Massey
A1 Howard, Andrew
T1 The Burden of Orthopaedic Disease in Developing Countries
JF The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery
JO The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery
YR 2004
FD August 1
VO 86
IS 8
SP 1819
OP 1822
DO 
UL http://dx.doi.org/
AB The global burden of musculoskeletal disease in low and middle-income
countries is large, growing, and neglected. While there is considerable
funding for the control of communicable disease, there has been little
attention paid to either the prevention or the treatment of orthopaedic
problems in developing countries. "Safe Roads" was the theme for
World Health Day 2004, and this paper examines the magnitude of injury in low
and middle-income countries, as well as the motors powering its growth, and
addresses the balance between the prevention and the treatment of injuries.
Finally, it calls upon orthopaedic surgeons in developed countries to build
partnerships with their colleagues in less developed countries to improve
clinical care, teaching, and research aimed at reducing the global burden of
injury.