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Global Health and Volunteering: A Guide for Healthcare Professionals is designed to educate volunteers to be effective partners in delivering medical services locally and globally. Healthcare professionals are increasingly interested in global health and volunteering in areas of acute need. The biggest challenge to health in many locales is the inability to access the health care system. When people do connect with medical services, medications and surgical opportunities for chronic disease (i.e. glaucoma, diabetes, or hypertension) are often not affordable or cannot be sustained for a long period of time.
The contributions in this book focus on a respectful dialog with local people and a willingness to learn from new experiences on the part of the volunteer. Skills transfer from visiting personnel to local providers is featured as a means to enhance healthcare sustainability.
An appreciation of differing cultures, an understanding of the local economic conditions and challenges, and strategies for collaborating with the existing medical establishment are foundations of successful volunteer experiences as highlighted in this book. Dimensions of global health such as professionalism, religious beliefs, ethical dilemmas, traditional medicine, and alternative strategies for service are addressed by experts.
Written and edited by leaders in the field, many of whom have more than two decades of experience volunteering abroad, Global Health and Volunteering: A Guide for Healthcare Professionals imparts lessons learned to help the reader avoid initial mistakes, while making the global health commitment stronger.
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Mildred M.G. Olivier, MD FACS
Professor of Surgery, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science / Chicago Medical School
Assistant Dean for Diversity, Director of Global Health, CEO Midwest Glaucoma Center, PC
Glaucoma Consultant John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County
Hoffman Estates IL, USA
Clarisse Croteau-Chonka, PhD
And So It Begins, LLC
Chicago, IL, USA
“The audience is primarily physicians. ... It enables readers to self-reflect on the reasons they would like to volunteer and how they would like to make an impact with their services. Since most healthcare professionals volunteer through an organization, it would have been helpful to discuss how to perform a critical evaluation and assessment of these organizations, as well as to provide guidance on how to find an organization that would best fit one's volunteering objectives.” (Mary Smith, Doody's Book Reviews, September 13, 2019)
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- PublisherSpringer
- Publication date2019
- ISBN 10 3319986597
- ISBN 13 9783319986593
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages326
- EditorOlivier Mildred M.G., Croteau-Chonka Clarisse C.
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