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Mobile Professional Voluntarism and International Development
Ackers, Louise; Johnson, James
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Description for Mobile Professional Voluntarism and International Development
Hardback. Num Pages: 173 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, 11 colour illustrations, 23 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JPW; KNXB2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 380.
This book is open access under a CC BY license.
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 ... Read more
This book is open access under a CC BY license.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
173
Condition
New
Number of Pages
173
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137558329
SKU
V9781137558329
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99-15
About Ackers, Louise; Johnson, James
Helen Louise Ackers holds a Chair in Global Social Justice at the University of Salford, UK. She has been actively involved in high impact social research for many years with a focus on the mobilities of the highly skilled and knowledge mobilisation processes. For the past eight years, she has been actively applying this expertise to the specific context of ... Read more
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