Lina Roa

Datos Biográficos

ID9066746
NOMBRELina Roa
NOMBRESLina
APELLIDORoa
FIRMAROA L
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Alberta
ORCID0000-0001-6552-4452
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS4
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR4
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2020
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • Obstetrician and gynaecologist engagement in global surgery

    Open AccessParisa Fallah, Lina Roa et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    BOX Despite growing interest and engagement in global surgery, obstetrician and gynaecologist (OB/GYN) representation remains low, and efforts have focused largely on obstetric care

  • Academic global surgical competencies

    Open AccessNatalie Pawlak, Christine Dart et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Academic global surgery is a rapidly growing field that aims to improve access to safe surgical care worldwide. However, no universally accepted competencies exist to inform this developing field. A consensus-based approach, with input from a diverse group of experts, is needed to identify essential competencies that will lead to standardization in this field. A task force was set up using snowball sampling to recruit a broad group of content and…

  • Optimizing availability of obstetric surgical care in India

    Open AccessLina Roa, Luke Caddell et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    The objective of this study is to assess the cost-effectiveness of three different strategies with different availabilities of cesarean sections (CS). The setting was rural and urban areas of India with varying rates of CS and access to comprehensive emergency obstetric care (CEmOC) for women of reproductive age in India. Three strategies with different access to CEmOC and CS rates were evaluated: (A) India’s national average (50.2% access, 17.2%…

  • Toward a complete estimate of physical and psychosocial morbidity from prolonged obstructed labour

    Open AccessLina Roa, Luke Caddell et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    INTRODUCTION: Prolonged obstructed labour often results from lack of access to timely obstetrical care and affects millions of women. Current burden of disease estimates do not include all the physical and psychosocial sequelae from prolonged obstructed labour. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of the full spectrum of maternal and newborn comorbidities, and create a more comprehensive burden of disease model. METHODS: This is a cross-se…