| Description |
1 online resource (308 pages) |
| Contents |
Intro; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1: An Overview of Global Health for the Healthcare Professional; Introduction; Defining Success; Understanding the Complexity of Barrier to Access; Program Planning: Alignment of Expectations; Evaluation and Adaptation; Toward Sustainability; Reverse Innovation: Bidirectional Collaboration in Global Health; Summary; References; Chapter 2: Global Health Education; Introduction; International Health; What Is Global Health?; Global Health Education; Interprofessional Education and Practice |
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Future States: The Case for Global HealthConclusion; References; Chapter 3: Perspectives on Global Health and Volunteerism for Healthcare Providers: The Importance of Preparation, Identification and Management of Infectious Diseases, and Mitigation of Other Risks; Pre-deployment Preparation; Getting Ready: Your Personal Health; Getting Set: Know the Country/Area/Culture; Go: Be Prepared for the Unexpected/Travel Literacy/Know How; Deployment; Living Environment/Transportation; Vector Avoidance; Safe Food and Water; Work Environment/Healthcare Facility; Needlestick Risk |
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Infectious Diseases Exposure/Risks/MitigationHand Hygiene; Malaria; Dengue, Zika, Chikungunya, and Yellow Fever; Dengue; Zika; Chikungunya; Yellow Fever; Respiratory Infections; Influenza; Tuberculosis; Post-deployment Evaluation: The Return Home; References; Chapter 4: What Could Go Wrong?: Providing a Moral Grounding to the Ethics of Short-Term Medicine; Introduction; Defining the STMI Experience; Ethical Frameworks for STMI; Recognition as a Moral Framework for STMI; Conclusion: Cultivating Friendship; References; Chapter 5: Religious Foundations for Global Health Missions |
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Service as a Central Component to Global Health MissionsReferences; Chapter 6: Professionalism in Global Health; Introduction; Unprofessional Behavior Undermines Global Health; Typical Determinants of Unprofessional Behavior in Global Health; Consequences of Unprofessional Behavior in Global Health; Strategies to Enhance Professional Behavior in Global Health; Conclusions; References; Chapter 7: Technical Factors in Telemedicine Adoption in Extreme Resource-Poor Countries; Introduction; Telemedicine Adoption; The Case Study in Haiti; Technical Factors that Will Promote Telemedicine Adoption |
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Resources and InfrastructureResources; Infrastructure; Life Support Networks; Telecommunications Networks; Technical Service Quality; End User Support; Comprehensive Ease of Use; Information Completeness; Conclusion; References; Chapter 8: Encountering Traditional Medicine in Global Health Service; Contrasting Allopathic and Traditional Medicine Worldviews; Safety and Efficacy of Traditional Medicine; Healthcare as Political Activism; Finding Commonality; Coexistence of Healthcare Systems; A New Learning Experience; Opportunity to Share; References; Suggested Reading |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Chapter 9: Humanitarian Relief: A Public Health View |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 16, 2019) |
| Subject |
World health.
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Volunteer workers in medical care.
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Global Health
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Volunteer workers in medical care
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World health
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Olivier, Mildred M. G., editor
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Croteau-Chonka, Clarisse, editor
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| ISBN |
3319986600 |
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3319986597 |
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9783319986593 |
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9783319986616 |
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3319986619 |
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9783319986609 |
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