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| Title |
Expanding the scope of medical mission volunteer groups to include a research component
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Globalization and Health, February 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/1744-8603-10-7 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
John Rovers, Michael Andreski, John Gitua, Abdoulaye Bagayoko, Jill DeVore |
| Abstract |
Serving on volunteer groups undertaking medical mission trips is a common activity for health care professionals and students. Although volunteers hope such work will assist underserved populations, medical mission groups have been criticized for not providing sustainable health services that focus on underlying health problems. As members of a volunteer medical mission group, we performed a bed net indicator study in rural Mali. We undertook this project to demonstrate that volunteers are capable of undertaking small-scale research, the results of which offer locally relevant results useful for disease prevention programs. The results of such projects are potentially sustainable beyond the duration of a mission trip. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 2 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 1 | 50% |
| Unknown | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 103 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Portugal | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 101 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 22 | 21% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 17 | 17% |
| Student > Bachelor | 11 | 11% |
| Researcher | 9 | 9% |
| Other | 7 | 7% |
| Other | 21 | 20% |
| Unknown | 16 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 28 | 27% |
| Social Sciences | 18 | 17% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 10 | 10% |
| Arts and Humanities | 6 | 6% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4 | 4% |
| Other | 19 | 18% |
| Unknown | 18 | 17% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 September 2019.
All research outputs
#6,874,583
of 25,371,288 outputs
Outputs from Globalization and Health
#817
of 1,226 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#62,031
of 238,973 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Globalization and Health
#17
of 23 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 1,226 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 22.0. This one is in the 32nd percentile – i.e., 32% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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