Mobile Professional Voluntarism and International Development: Killing Me Softly?

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

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137558326
• ISBN13: 9781137558329
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 173 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"