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  • Delivering Universal Health Care to People with Major Limb Loss or Damage in Low and Middle Income Countries

    A Complex Intervention in Uganda

    by Louise Ackers, Jonathan Huck, Laurence Kenney, Allan Ndawula, Jackson Murungi ...
    This Open Access book addresses the need for rehabilitation services for people impacted by Major Limb Loss in Low and Middle Income Countries. It focuses on a Complex Intervention study in Uganda supporting the provision of affordable and accessible prosthetic services in a public referral hospital. The book demonstrates the impact that overwhelming dependency on overseas support has had on ... Read more

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  • Anti-Microbial Resistance in Global Perspective

    by Louise Ackers, Gavin Ackers-Johnson, Joanne Welsh, Daniel Kibombo, Samuel Opio ...
    ‘The Maternal Sepsis Intervention has had a profound impact on maternal mortality and antibiotic use whilst also reducing hospital costs. The Ministry of Health is keen to explore opportunities to extending the lessons learnt and integrate them in national policy-making.'-Dr. Richard Mugahi, Ministry of Health, Uganda.This open access book provides an accessible introduction to the mechanics of ... Read more

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  • Healthcare, Frugal Innovation, and Professional Voluntarism

    A Cost-Benefit Analysis

    by Helen Louise Ackers, James Ackers-Johnson, John Chatwin, Natasha Tyler ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • Mobile Professional Voluntarism and International Development

    Killing Me Softly?

    by Helen Louise Ackers, James Ackers-Johnson ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    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 ... Read more

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  • The Ethics of Educational Healthcare Placements in Low and Middle Income Countries

    First Do No Harm?

    by Anya Ahmed, James Ackers-Johnson, Helen Louise Ackers ...
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book examines the current state of elective placements of medical undergraduate students in developing countries and their impact on health care education at home. Drawing from a recent case study of volunteer deployment in Uganda, the authors provide an in-depth evaluation of the impacts on the students themselves and the learning outcomes ... Read more

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