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Images, Motives, and Challenges for Western Health Workers in Humanitarian Aid
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- Bjerneld, Magdalena (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Institutionen för kvinnors och barns hälsa,International Maternal and Reproductive Health
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- Lindmark, Gunilla, Professor (thesis advisor)
- Uppsala universitet,Institutionen för kvinnors och barns hälsa
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- Maina Ahlberg, Beth, Professor (thesis advisor)
- Uppsala universitet,Institutionen för kvinnors och barns hälsa
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- Dahlgren, Lars, Professor (opponent)
- Epidemiology and Public Health Science, Umeå University
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- ISBN 9789155475093
- Uppsala : Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2009
- English 65 s.
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Series: Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine, 1651-6206 ; 453
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- This thesis presents how humanitarian aid workers were attracted, motivated, recruited, and prepared for fieldwork, and how they reported their work experience directly from the field and when they returned home. Data were derived from interviews with experienced aid workers, focus group discussions with presumptive aid workers, analysis of letters from aid workers in the field on MSFs homepages in Europe, and from interviews with recruitment officers at some of the main humanitarian organisations. Health professionals were attracted by the positive images of humanitarian action. They wished to work in teams with like-minded people, and to make a difference in the world. However, this image was not supported by the recruitment officers, or experienced aid workers, who described a complex reality in humanitarian action. The experienced aid workers instead had realised they learned more than they contributed. The recruitment system for relief workers would benefit from a more holistic approach, where personalities of the aid workers are more in focus. More time must be spent with the applicants, both recruited and returning aid workers, in order to improve the system. A socialisation approach could help identify the right personnel and to motivate current personnel to continue.
Subject headings
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Hälsovetenskap -- Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa, socialmedicin och epidemiologi (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Health Sciences -- Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- humanitarian action
- human resource management
- relief workers
- aid workers
- volunteers
- images
- motives
- qualitative research
- Public health medicine research areas
- Folkhälsomedicinska forskningsområden
- Medicin
- Medicine
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- dok (subject category)
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