Brain Gains: a literature review of medical missions to low and middle-income countries
Open Access
- 29 May 2012
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Health Services Research
- Vol. 12 (1), 134
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-12-134
Abstract
Healthcare professionals’ participation in short-term medical missions to low and middle income countries (LMIC) to provide healthcare has become common over the past 50 years yet little is known about the quantity and quality of these missions. The aim of this study was to review medical mission publications over 25 years to better understand missions and their potential impact on health systems in LMICs.Keywords
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