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Book/Printed Material Healthcare, Frugal Innovation, and Professional Voluntarism : A Cost-Benefit Analysis

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Title

  • Healthcare, Frugal Innovation, and Professional Voluntarism : A Cost-Benefit Analysis

Summary

  • This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book investigates what international placements of healthcare employees in low resource settings add to the UK workforce and the efficacy of the its national health system. The authors present empirical data collected from a volunteer deployment project in Uganda focused on reducing maternal and new-born mortality and discuss the learning and experiential outcomes for UK health care professionals acting as long term volunteers in low resource settings. They also develop a model for structured placement that offers optimal learning and experiential outcomes and minimizes risk, while shedding new light on the role that international placements play as part of continuing professional development both in the UK and in other sending countries.

Names

  • Ackers, Helen Louise. author
  • Ackers-Johnson, James. author
  • Chatwin, John. author
  • Tyler, Natasha. author

Created / Published

  • Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

Contents

  • 1. International mobility and learning in the UK National Health Service -- 2. Internationalisation and placement activity in the UK National Health Service -- 3. What do health workers learn on international placements? -- 4. Managing costs and risks -- 5. Conclusions: Towards a model for sustainable professional volunteering.

Headings

  • -  Africa-Politics and government
  • -  Comparative politics
  • -  Economic policy
  • -  Health services administration
  • -  Health care management
  • -  Poverty
  • -  Comparative Politics
  • -  African Politics
  • -  Development Aid
  • -  Development Policy
  • -  Health Administration
  • -  Health Care Management

Notes

  • -  Description based on publisher-supplied MARC data.
  • -  Political Science and International Studies (R0) (SpringerNature-43724)
  • -  Political Science and International Studies (SpringerNature-41174)

Medium

  • 1 online resource (XI, 141 pages 8 illustrations, 7 illustrations in color.)

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2019744216

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  • Unrestricted online access.

Online Format

  • image
  • epub

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Chicago citation style:

Ackers, Helen Louise. Author, James. Author Ackers-Johnson, John. Author Chatwin, and Natasha. Author Tyler. Healthcare, Frugal Innovation, and Professional Voluntarism: A Cost-Benefit Analysis. Cham: Springer International Publishing: Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/2019744216/.

APA citation style:

Ackers, H. L. A., Ackers-Johnson, J. A., Chatwin, J. A. & Tyler, N. A. (2017) Healthcare, Frugal Innovation, and Professional Voluntarism: A Cost-Benefit Analysis. Cham: Springer International Publishing: Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan. [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2019744216/.

MLA citation style:

Ackers, Helen Louise. Author, et al. Healthcare, Frugal Innovation, and Professional Voluntarism: A Cost-Benefit Analysis. Cham: Springer International Publishing: Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2019744216/>.