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Mobile professional voluntarism and international development : killing me softly?

Ackers, HL; Ackers-Johnson, J

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Authors

J Ackers-Johnson



Abstract

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.

Citation

Ackers, H., & Ackers-Johnson, J. (2017). Mobile professional voluntarism and international development : killing me softly?. UK: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55833-6

Book Type Authored Book
Online Publication Date Nov 8, 2016
Publication Date Jan 1, 2017
Deposit Date Apr 18, 2018
Publicly Available Date Apr 18, 2018
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 9781137558329-(print);-9781137558336-(online)
DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55833-6
Publisher URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55833-6
Related Public URLs https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137558329
Additional Information Access Information : This book is open access under a CC BY license.