title: Characterizing the global burden of surgical disease: a method to estimate inguinal hernia epidemiology in Ghana: reply.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA, jessica.beard@ucsfmedctr.org.
authors.forename: Jessica H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Beard
mesh_terms: D017281:Cost of Illness; D005260:Female; D014943:Global Health / Q000191:economics*; D006552:Hernia, Inguinal / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000601:surgery*; D059685:Herniorrhaphy / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male