Heart to Heart: Challenges of Providing Cardiac Care Abroad
Each year when Team Heart touches down in Kigali, Rwanda, they become one of the only medical groups in the country to offer heart surgery.
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Substandard, Falsified Medicines Create an Understudied Economic Burden
The impact of poor-quality medicines is an understudied problem requiring further vigorous economic analyses.
ACP: Position Paper Shares Top Principles of Volunteer Medical Experiences
The position paper focuses on the 4 accepted principles of healthcare: beneficence, nonmaleficence, justice, and respect for autonomy.
Poor Health Outcomes More Common Among Children of Migrant Workers
Initiatives are needed to improve the health and well-being of children of migrant workers worldwide.
Tracking Global Progress on Health and Climate Change Initiatives
Increasing temperatures and changing frequency of floods, droughts, heatwaves, and storms have direct effects on physical and mental health.
International C-Section Outcomes: The “C” Is Not for Certainty
Recent data show incredible variation in C-section rates from country to country.
Protectionism of In-House Radiologists at Hospitals in the United States
There are thousands of international radiologists who are capable of composing clear and intelligible reports for hospitals in the United States.
Medical Tourism Requires Standardized Definition to Assess Full Impact
The 2016 Global Healthcare Policy and Management Forum discussed the regulation of medical tourism and the gaps that exist in available data.
Are Significant Resources Being Allocated to Elective Cases During Surgical Humanitarian Efforts?
Humanitarian surgical care has been provided to local national civilians during the Afghanistan conflict with 49.3% of patients treated for non-war-related conditions.
Should Foreign Language Fluency Be a Required Competency for International Medicine?
The world needs doctors, no matter what language we speak, because the people you’ll be helping out will be more than grateful to even be seeing a doctor in the first place.
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