Mobile Professional Voluntarism and International Development : Killing Me Softly?
2017
JA71-80
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Title
Mobile Professional Voluntarism and International Development : Killing Me Softly?
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ISBN
9781137558336
1137558334
1137558326
9781137558329
1137558334
1137558326
9781137558329
Published
New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2017
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xv, 173 pages) : illusrtations.
Item Number
10.1057/978-1-137-55833-6 doi
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JA71-80
Dewey Decimal Classification
320
Summary
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
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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
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Palgrave pivot.
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Table of Contents
1. Mobile Professional Voluntarism and International Development 'Aid'
2. 'First Do No Harm': Professional Volunteers as Knowledge Intermediaries
3. Fetishizing and Commodifying 'Training'?
4. Can (Imported) Knowledge Change Systems? Understanding the Dynamics of Behaviour Change
5. Iterative Learning: 'Knowledge for Change'?
2. 'First Do No Harm': Professional Volunteers as Knowledge Intermediaries
3. Fetishizing and Commodifying 'Training'?
4. Can (Imported) Knowledge Change Systems? Understanding the Dynamics of Behaviour Change
5. Iterative Learning: 'Knowledge for Change'?