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Doing Global Health Work: Approaches that Really Make a Difference
Global health work, the kind that really makes a difference, revolves around empowering people living in resource-limited areas. This practical, engaging book guides health and development professionals towards sustainable, evidence-based approaches to global health work. Many health professionals go the extra mile to bring their skills to formerly colonized countries where health inequities are typically even more alarming than at home. Whether via medical missions, supporting disaster relief, or short-term medical trips, health professionals are most often outsiders to the communities they visit. Doing Global Health Work seeks to ensure the work done in resource-limited areas is beneficial and lasting. Marshalling his own extensive experience and an enormous amount of research, Kirk Scirto Sparkling with anecdotes of inspired communities expanding their access to and control over health, Doing Global Health Work breaks new ground by ensuring health and development professionals are prepared to provide greater positive impact in the communities they serve. About Hesperian Health Hesperian partners with community health workers, villagers, medical professionals, and others around the world to develop, publish and share accurate health information. To help all people take greater control over their health, Hesperian’s books are written using plain, easy-to-understand language, feature plentiful illustrations and are regularly updated with the latest medical information at every reprint.
242 pages, Paperback
Published November 20, 2022
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July 15, 2024
I agree with what I think is the main point of the book: standard global health clinical rotations are lose/lose experiences. The book's anecdotal style is not my favorite but the author highlights some of the things that do make sense like Helping Babies Breathe.
The old joke is that the typical one-month global medicine rotation is one week travel, one week tourism, one week diarrhea and one week feeling useless. Sending people for short stints to work in a foreign environment with unfamiliar problems and practices is a bad use of resources. Even these rotations could be useful I think if people could learn some humility from the experience, get an understanding of extreme poverty and advocate for real solutions. However, those generally aren't the goals or the lessons, and you don't need a medical rotation for all that anyway.
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The old joke is that the typical one-month global medicine rotation is one week travel, one week tourism, one week diarrhea and one week feeling useless. Sending people for short stints to work in a foreign environment with unfamiliar problems and practices is a bad use of resources. Even these rotations could be useful I think if people could learn some humility from the experience, get an understanding of extreme poverty and advocate for real solutions. However, those generally aren't the goals or the lessons, and you don't need a medical rotation for all that anyway.
The Origins of Human Disease
Give a Little: How Your Small Donations Can Transform Our World
The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty
The Making of a Tropical Disease: A Short History of Malaria
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