Mobile Professional Voluntarism and International Development [electronic resource] : Killing Me Softly?

• Tác giả: Helen Louise Ackers, James Ackers-Johnson
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1137558336
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 320 Political science (Politics and government)
• Thông tin xuất bản: New York, NY : Springer Nature, 2017
• Mô tả vật lý: XV, 173 p. 13 illus., 11 illus. in color. , online resource.
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 200385
• Chủ đề: 1. Africa-Politics and government; 2. Comparative politics; 3. Economic development; 4. Great Britain-Politics and government; 5. International organization; 6. Social change; 7. Comparative Politics; 8. African Politics; 9. British Politics; 10. Development and Social Change; 11. Development Theory; 12. International Organization

Tóm tắt

 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.