Overview
- Provides the first comprehensive analysis of a professional volunteer deployment project and its effect on national health care education in the sending country
- Offers enlightening case studies in overseas training in Africa
- Speaks to both health care educators and policy makers in the UK and elsewhere
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This book investigates what international placements of healthcare employees in low resource settings add to the UK workforce and the efficacy of its national health system. The authors present empirical data collected from a volunteer deployment project in Uganda focused on reducing maternal and new-born mortality and discuss the learning and experiential outcomes for UK health care professionals acting as long term volunteers in low resource settings. They also develop a model for structured placement that offers optimal learning and experiential outcomes and minimizes risk, while shedding new light on the role that international placements play as part of continuing professional development both in the UK and in other sending countries.
This book investigates what international placements of healthcare employees in low resource settings add to the UK workforce and the efficacy of its national health system. The authors present empirical data collected from a volunteer deployment project in Uganda focused on reducing maternal and new-born mortality and discuss the learning and experiential outcomes for UK health care professionals acting as long term volunteers in low resource settings. They also develop a model for structured placement that offers optimal learning and experiential outcomes and minimizes risk, while shedding new light on the role that international placements play as part of continuing professional development both in the UK and in other sending countries.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Helen Louise Ackers is Chair in Global Social Justice at the University of Salford, UK.
James Ackers-Johnson is Project Manager at the University of Salford, UK.
John Chatwin is a qualitative researcher who has worked on a wide variety of high profile international studies.
Natasha Tyler is Doctoral Researcher based in the Knowledge and Place Research Group at the University of Salford, UK.
James Ackers-Johnson is Project Manager at the University of Salford, UK.
John Chatwin is a qualitative researcher who has worked on a wide variety of high profile international studies.
Natasha Tyler is Doctoral Researcher based in the Knowledge and Place Research Group at the University of Salford, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Healthcare, Frugal Innovation, and Professional Voluntarism
Book Subtitle: A Cost-Benefit Analysis
Authors: Helen Louise Ackers, James Ackers-Johnson, John Chatwin, Natasha Tyler
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48366-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-48365-8Published: 10 April 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83923-3Published: 28 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-48366-5Published: 28 March 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 141
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Comparative Politics, Development Policy, Health Care Management, Health Administration, African Politics, Development Aid