Mobile Professional Voluntarism and International Development - Killing Me Softly? (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)

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.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2016
First published:	2017
Authors:	Helen Louise Ackers • James Ackers-Johnson
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	173
Edition:	1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13:	978-1-137-55832-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > General Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Industrial relations & safety > Industrial relations > Trade unions Promotions
LSN:	1-137-55832-6
Barcode:	9781137558329

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