Mobile Professional Voluntarism and International Development : Killing Me Softly?

Ackers, Helen Louise

1st ed. 2016

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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 maternal and newborn health in Uganda. However, important opportunities exist for policy transfer to other contexts.

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Book information

ISBN:	9781137558329
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date:	26 Dec 2016
Edition:	1st ed. 2016
DEWEY:	362.10425
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	173
Weight:	3544g
Height:	210mm
Width:	148mm
Spine width:	18mm