The ethics of educational healthcare placements in low and middle income countries : first do no harm?
(2017)
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Ahmed, A., Ackers-Johnson, J., & Ackers, H. (2017). The ethics of educational healthcare placements in low and middle income countries : first do no harm?. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48363-4
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Healthcare, frugal innovation, and professional voluntarism : a cost-benefit analysis (2017)
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Ackers, H., Ackers-Johnson, J., Chatwin, J., & Tyler, N. (2017). Healthcare, frugal innovation, and professional voluntarism : a cost-benefit analysis. UK: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48366-5This 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 pro... Read More about Healthcare, frugal innovation, and professional voluntarism : a cost-benefit analysis.
Mobile professional voluntarism and international development : killing me softly? (2016)
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Ackers, H., & Ackers-Johnson, J. (2017). Mobile professional voluntarism and international development : killing me softly?. UK: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55833-6This 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 effe... Read More about Mobile professional voluntarism and international development : killing me softly?.