Healthcare, Frugal Innovation, and Professional Voluntarism [electronic resource] : a Cost-Benefit Analysis

• Tác giả: Helen Louise Ackers, James Ackers-Johnson, John Chatwin, Natasha Tyler
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-10: 3319483668
• ISBN-13: 978-3319483665
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 362.10941 Physical illness
• Thông tin xuất bản: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (XI, 141 pages 8 illustrations, 7 illustrations in color.) : , online resource.
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 117498
• Chủ đề: 1. Comparative government; 2. Economic policy; 3. Health administration; 4. Health services administration; 5. Political science; 6. Poverty

Tóm tắt

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book investigates what international placements of healthcare employees in low resource settings add to the UK workforce and the efficacy of the 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.