What is it about?
A qualitative, survey-based study of recipients of services from short-term medical missions in the Dominican Republic.
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Why is it important?
This study fills a gap in the literature in that there is little published from the perspective of care recipients of short-term humanitarian medical relief efforts.
Perspectives
This study shows there is some value in meeting health care-related needs in short-term settings, and that recipients are comfortable with student participation if overseen by a licenced physician supervisor
Dr Daniel William O'Neill
University of Connecticut System
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This page is a summary of: Perceptions of a short-term medical programme in the Dominican Republic: Voices of care recipients, Global Public Health, March 2014, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2014.893368.
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