Healers abroad : Americans responding to the human resource crisis in HIV/AIDS / Committee on the Options for Overseas Placement of U.S. Health Professionals, Board on Global Health ; Fitzhugh Mullan, Claire Panosian, Patricia Cuff, editors.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on the Options for Overseas Placement of U.S. Health Professionals.

Contributor:

Mullan, Fitzhugh.

Panosian, Claire.

Cuff, Patricia A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AIDS (Disease)--Government policy--United States.

AIDS (Disease).

Medical assistance, American.

World health.

Physical Description:

xxi, 242 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : National Academies Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Healers Abroad: Americans Responding to the Human Resource Crisis in HIV/AIDS calls for the federal government to create and fund the United States Global Health Service (GHS) to mobilize the nation 1/2s best health care professionals and other highly skilled experts to help combat HIV/AIDS in hard-hit African, Caribbean, and Southeast Asian countries. The dearth of qualified health care workers in many lowincome nations is often the biggest roadblock to mounting effective responses to public health needs. The proposal 1/2s goal is to build the capacity of targeted countries to fight the HIV/AIDS pandemic over the long run. The GHS would be comprised of six multifaceted components. Full-time, salaried professionals would make up the organization 1/2s pivotal 1/2service corps, 1/2 working side-by-side with other colleagues already on the ground to provide medical care and drug therapy to affected populations while offering local counterparts training and assistance in clinical, technical, and managerial areas.

Contents:

FrontMatter

Reviewers

Preface

Acknowledgments

Contents

Tables, Figures, and Boxes

Executive Summary

1 Introduction

2 Confronting HIV/AIDS on the Ground

3 New Routes of Engagement Against Global HIV/AIDS

4 Envisioning a U.S. Global Health Service

5 Programs of the U.S. Global Health Service

6 Looking Ahead

Appendixes

Appendix A Information Gathering Workshop Agendas

Appendix B Ethical Issues in Foreign Health Workforce Assistance Programs

Appendix C Assessing the Human Resource Need for Expanding HIV/AIDS Services in the 15 PEPFAR Focus Countries

Appendix D U.S. Organizational Experience with Volunteer Health Programs

Appendix E E-Health and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic: Using Technology to Support U.S. Workforce Expansion and Local Capacity Building in PEPFAR Nations

Appendix F ICT Considerations to Support PEPFAR Activities

Appendix G Attributes of Governmental and Nongovernmental Organizational Models for the Potential Administration of the Global Health Service

Appendix H Biographies.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786612083341

9780309165167

0309165164

9781282083349

1282083341

9780309549523

0309549523

OCLC:

923274617