Healthcare, Frugal Innovation, and Professional Voluntarism: A Cost-Benefit Analysis
Helen Louise Ackers
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Hardback. Num Pages: 145 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 7 colour illustrations, 19 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: JKSN1; JKSR; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
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 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 ... Read more
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 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
141
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319483658
SKU
V9783319483658
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Ref
99-15
About Helen Louise Ackers
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 ... Read more
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