title: Commentary on: characterizing the global burden of surgical disease: a method to estimate inguinal hernia epidemiology in Ghana.
authors.affiliation: International Health, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA, sshillcu@jhsph.edu.
authors.forename: Samuel D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Shillcutt
authors.forename: Andrew N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Kingsnorth
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