**9. Conclusion**

I want to emphasize the role of these centers in providing a welcoming physical environment, respect for their values, empowerment and collaboration, coordination and integration of care, comfort and support, and access and navigation skills to patients and their families.

The concept is designed to help organizations deliver a consistent, safe, and high-quality approach to care—that is, an approach that reduces the risk of error and improves outcomes and customer satisfaction—by providing the following:

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The surgeon's role is to continue to be the patient's "provider of choice" in hernia treatment and be a global leader in hernia education and research. To align the objectives of clinicians, patients, and providers, "a greater emphasis on value is key, and achieving high-value care for patients must become the goal of health-care delivery, thereby reducing costs" [13].

Successful change must be locally driven by local leaders, supported by global partners through true accompaniment, global collaboration, and an emphasis on systems, not silos. Only in this way will we be able to do some action.

There is work being undertaken to have work-based assessments and a curriculum to officially recognize the benefits and learning opportunities of work abroad.

I conclude by discussing hernia surgery and hernia centers as a global health priority and possible solutions to improving surgical care globally.
