Guidelines for short-term medical missions: perspectives from host countries.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the past decade, there has been increasing guideline development for short-term medical missions (STMMs) traveling from high-income to low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of supporting health care services. The ethics of STMMs is criticized in the literature and there is frequently a lack of host country collaboration. This typically results in guidelines which are developed through the lens of the sending (high-income) countries' staff and organizations. The aim of this paper is to evaluate an existing best practice guideline document from the perspective of host country participants with knowledge of STMMs from Honduras, Malawi, and the Philippines.

Methods

The guideline used for the evaluation consisted of nine best practice elements that were d

SUBMITTER: Tracey P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8857875 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature