Short-term volunteer health trips: aligning host community preferences and organizer practices

Background: Short-term medical missions (STMMs) are quite common and largely understood to be a response to health needs in low-income countries. Yet most information about STMM practices is anecdotal. Even less is known about the preferences of in-country host communities regarding STMMs. Objective...

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Published in:	Global Health Action
Main Authors:	Michael D. Rozier, Judith N. Lasker, Bruce Compton
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Taylor & Francis Group 2017-01-01
Subjects:	medical missions capacity building partnership/collaboration voluntourism
Online Access:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2017.1267957