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    Title: A comparative study of Taiwan's short-term medical missions to the South Pacific and Central America
    Authors: Chiu, YW;Weng, YH;Chen, CF;Yang, CY;Chiou, HY;Lee, ML
    Contributors: Division of Health Services and Preventive Medicine
    Abstract: ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Taiwan has been dispatching an increasing number of short-term medical missions (STMMs) to its allied nations to provide humanitarian health care; however, overall evaluations to help policy makers strengthen the impact of such missions are lacking. Our primary objective is to identify useful strategies by comparing STMMs to the South Pacific and Central America. METHODS: The data for the evaluation come from two main sources: the official reports of 46 missions to 11 countries in Central America and 25 missions to 8 countries in the South Pacific, and questionnaires completed by health professionals who had participated in the above missions. In Central America, STMMs were staffed by volunteer health professionals from multiple institutions. In the South Pacific, STMMs were staffed by volunteer health professionals from single institutions. RESULTS: In comparison to STMMs to Central America, STMMs to the South Pacific accomplished more educational training for local health providers, including providing heath-care knowledge and skills (p<0.05), and training in equipment administration (p<0.001) and drug administration (p<0.005). In addition, language constraints were more common among missions to Central America (p<0.001). There was no significant difference in the performance of clinical service between the two regions. CONCLUSIONS: Health-care services provided by personnel from multiple institutions are as efficient as those from single institutions. Proficiency in the native language and provision of education for local health-care workers are essential for conducting a successful STMM. Our data provide implications for integrating evidence into the deployment of STMMs.
    Date: 2012-12-27
    Relation: BMC International Health and Human Rights. 2012 Dec 27;12:Article number 37.
    Link to: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-698x-12-37
    Cited Times(WOS): https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:000313554000001
    Cited Times(Scopus): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=84871542364
    Appears in Collections:[Ya-Wen Chiu(2005-2013)] Periodical Articles

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