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Assessing the Short-Term Global Health Experience: A Cross-Sectional Study of Demographics, Socioeconomic Factors, and Disease Prevalence

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dc.contributor.author Geen, Olivia
dc.contributor.author Pumputis, Allison
dc.contributor.author Kochi, Cristina
dc.contributor.author Costa, Andrew
dc.contributor.author Stobbe, Karl
dc.date.accessioned 2019-01-25T15:02:18Z
dc.date.available 2019-01-25T15:02:18Z
dc.date.issued 2017
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/4604
dc.description.abstract Interest in short-term global health experiences to underserviced populations has grown rapidly in the last few decades. However, there remains very little research on what participants can expect to encounter. At the same time, it has been suggested that in order for physicians and workers to provide safe and effective care, volunteers should have a basic understanding of local culture, health systems, epidemiology, and socioeconomic needs of the community before arriving. Our objective was to add to the limited literature on what short-term global health trips can expect to encounter through a cross-sectional study of patient demographics, socioeconomic markers, and the prevalence of diseases encountered on a short-term medical service trip to Lima, Peru. Descriptive analysis was conducted on clinic data collected from patients living in Pamplona Alta and Pamplona Baja, Lima, Peru, in July 2015. We found that volunteers encountered mainly female patients (70.8%), and that there were significant socioeconomic barriers to care including poverty, poor housing, environmental exposures, and lack of continuity of health care. Analysis of the disease prevalence found a high proportion of acute and chronic musculoskeletal pain in the adult populations (18.8% and 11.4%, respectively), and a high presentation of upper respiratory tract infections (25.4%) and parasites (22.0%) in the pediatric group. These findings can be used by future short-term medical service trips to address potential gaps in care including the organization of weekend clinics to allow access to working men, and the use of patient education and nonpharmacological management of acute and chronic disease. en_US
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
dc.relation.ispartofseries American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH Journal)
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject Global Health en_US
dc.subject Adolescent en_US
dc.subject Adult en_US
dc.subject Aged en_US
dc.subject Aged, 80 and over en_US
dc.subject Child en_US
dc.subject Child, Preschool en_US
dc.subject Cross-Sectional Studies en_US
dc.subject Female en_US
dc.subject Humans en_US
dc.subject Infant en_US
dc.subject Infant, Newborn en_US
dc.subject Male en_US
dc.subject Middle Aged en_US
dc.subject Organizational Objectives en_US
dc.subject Peru/epidemiology en_US
dc.subject Quality of Health Care/organization & administration en_US
dc.subject Socioeconomic Factors en_US
dc.subject Tropical Medicine/organization & administration en_US
dc.subject Voluntary Programs/organization & administration en_US
dc.subject Young Adult en_US
dc.title Assessing the Short-Term Global Health Experience: A Cross-Sectional Study of Demographics, Socioeconomic Factors, and Disease Prevalence en_US
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.16-0938
dc.subject.ocde https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.03.06
dc.relation.issn 1476-1645


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