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

by John Chatwin, James Ackers-Johnson, Helen Louise Ackers

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 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319839233
• ISBN13: 9783319839233
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 141 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"