Short-Term Medical Missions: Enhancing or Eroding Health?
This paper analyzes two case studies of short-term medical missions to Latin America. Its conclusions suggest that when such projects are evaluated in terms of their impact upon the health status of the local population or health care delivery systems, they are found to have insignificant and even n...
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1993
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Missiology
Year: 1993, Volume: 21, Issue: 3, Pages: 333-341 |
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