Healthcare, Frugal Innovation, and Professional Voluntarism

A Cost-Benefit Analysis
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-48365-8
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 141 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 323 g

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 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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ackers, Helen Louise

Tyler, Natasha

Ackers-Johnson, James

Chatwin, John

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Krankenhausmanagement, Praxismanagement
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Betriebliches Gesundheitsmanagement
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Community Care, Bildung, Freizeit, Freiwilligenarbeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. International mobility and learning in the UK National Health Service.- 2. Internationalisation and placement activity in the UK National Health Service.- 3. What do health workers learn on international placements?.- 4. Managing costs and risks.- 5. Conclusions: Towards a model for sustainable professional volunteering.

Über Autor(innen)

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 Research Group at the University of Salford, UK.