Mobile professional voluntarism and international development : killing me softly?

Ackers, HL ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7811-636X and Ackers-Johnson, J 2017, Mobile professional voluntarism and international development : killing me softly? , Palgrave Macmillan, UK.

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Abstract

This book explores the impact that professional volunteers have on the low resource countries they choose to spend time in. Whilst individual volunteering may be of immediate benefit to individual patients, this intervention may have detrimental effects on local health systems; distorting labour markets, accentuating dependencies and creating opportunities for corruption. Improved volunteer deployment may avoid these risks and present opportunities for sustainable systems change. The empirical research presented in this book stems from a specific volunteering intervention funded by the Tropical Health Education Trust and focused on improving maternal and newborn health in Uganda. However, important opportunities exist for policy transfer to other contexts.

Item Type:	Book
Schools:	Schools > School of Health and Society > Centre for Applied Research in Health, Welfare and Policy
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:	9781137558329 (print); 9781137558336 (online)
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Funders:	Tropical Health and Education Trust
Depositing User:	HL Ackers
Date Deposited:	18 Apr 2018 11:58
Last Modified:	27 Aug 2021 21:09
URI:	https://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/46764

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