When Healthcare Hurts: An Evidence-Based Guide for Best Practices in Global Health Initiatives Second Edition by Greg Seager

When Healthcare Hurts is an evidence-based, critical look at the potential promise and perils of global health initiatives. Greg Seager, Founder and CEO of Christian Health Service Corps, asks thought-provoking questions about global health projects that can illuminate areas of needed improvement and uncover some of our own harmful biases. Mr. Seager draws from scholarly research, WHO, UNICEF, and other authoritative sources to compose six best practice guidelines in global health. The combination of real-world case studies and the author’s wealth of experience makes this book a must-read for anyone serving in short or long-term global health initiatives. Have you ever volunteered on a medical mission or global health trip and wondered what could have been done better? When Healthcare Hurts: An Evidence-Based Guide for Best Practices in Global Health Initiatives was the first book to look seriously at the challenges of volunteerism in global health when it was first published in 2012. Since then, thousands of individuals, groups, and organizations have used it to improve the quality of healthcare initiatives that serve the poor around the world. It has been used as a textbook for global health service-learning programs in public health, nursing, and medical schools. This Second Edition of the book simplifies these concepts and strategies for best practices in global health, and it looks at these concepts as they apply to both short-term and longer-term work in global health. It remains a comprehensive review of key principles every global health and medical volunteer should know to make a lasting difference and avoid causing harm. Read more