Hoping to Help : The Promises and Pitfalls of Global Health Volunteering /

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Overseas volunteering has exploded in numbers and interest in the last couple of decades. Every year, hundreds of thousands of people travel from wealthier to poorer countries to participate in short-term volunteer programs focused on health services. Churches, universities, nonprofit service organi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lasker, Judith, 1947- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Volunteer workers in medical care.
Voluntary health agencies.
Missions, Medical.
Medical assistance > International cooperation.
International cooperation.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Volunteer Work.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
Cooperation internationale.
Associations sans but lucratif pour la sante publique.
Aide sanitaire > Cooperation internationale.
Missions medicales.
Benevoles dans les services de sante.
Voluntary Health Agencies
Medical Missions
International Cooperation
Volunteers
Global Health > trends
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : a "tsunami" of international volunteers
  • Who sponsors international medical missions?
  • The activities and goals of sponsoring organizations
  • Becoming a volunteer
  • What leads to volunteering, what volunteering leads to
  • The best and the worst : host perspectives on volunteer programs
  • Benefits to host communities
  • First do no harm : the unintended negatives for host communities
  • Mutuality and continuity, two pillars of effective programs
  • Community-focused research
  • Programmatic focus
  • Lessons learned : responding to the debate.

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