HEALTH FOR ALL NATIONS
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      • Arnold Gorske
      • Daniel W. O’Neill, MD, MA(Th)
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      • Grace Tazelaar
      • Bruce Dahlman, MD
      • Michael N. Dohn
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      • Apolos Landa Tucto
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Potential Best Practices Topics

​Best Practices in Global Health Missions

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​Potential Best Practices Topics

  1. Missiological Strategies
    • church planting & growth
      • using health related ministries (HRM’s) for church planting in restricted access locations
      • using HRM’s for church planting where a strong national church already exists
      • how can HRMs be used to strengthen the local church?
    • unreached peoples
    • Receiver/Host discipleship
    • Goer/Participant discipleship
    • avoiding Messiah Complex and ethnocentrism
    • Evangelism though curative care delivery (bridge-building, love, cultural adaptation)
  2. Strategic Alliances/Networking and Partnership issues
    • Coordination/Collaboration with host country health systems
      • public health/PHC
      • government facilities – community health centers, clinics, hospitals
      • host church health workers
      • private health providers –
    • Coordination/Collaboration with secular NGO/relief and development organizations
    • Coordination/Collaboration with other Christian NGO/church/relief and development groups
    • avoiding unhealthy dependency while developing a healthy interdependency
  3. Legal aspects
    • permission – curative care with legal permission from host country (Ministry of Health and ?other licensing boards?)
    • liability
    • bribes
    • medication handling
    • patients rights-informed consent
    • licensure — medical and nursing
  4. Curative care issues
    • Surgical issues
      • informed consent
      • scope of practice –
      • skill transfer
    • Medication use
      • inordinate focus
      • expiration
      • limitations – using meds on STHRM that are unavailable in the host country
      • risks & benefits
      • conformity with WHO recommendations
    • Language proficiency and translation for medical/health information.
    • Appropriate technology
  5. Education
    • Host/Receiver health workers
    • Sent/Goer participants – short-term workers may have as much to learn as hosts
    • Integrating with host country teaching institutions
    • Providing CME type credits in rural settings
  6. Primary Health Care initiatives
    • cooperation with UN MDG’s
    • how do we define PHC?
    • how do you actually do PHC as defined by the Alma Ata declaration – with the people and not just for them.
    • who should do PHC? Are physicians the best to fill this role? Nurses?
    • health promoters
    • Mid-level providers — roles and scope of practice
  7. Research efforts
    • spiritual & physical effectiveness of interventions
    • effects of STHRM’s (short term health related missions)
    • how to most effectively work in collaboration/coordination with other HR initiatives.
    • Identifying and measuring outcomes (using metrics)
    • Ethical standards
    • Case studies
  8. Health in Transformational Development
  9. Strengthening Health Systems
    • role for being advocates for the poor
    • role in promoting just healthcare systems
    • facilities administration/management
    • shouldering the cost-issues of sustainability
10. Physical Therapy
11. Occupational Therapy
12. Mental Health
13. Reconciliation
14. Nutrition
15. Clean Water
16. The Environment
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The mission of Health for All Nations is to engage the global Christian community in the exploration and application of biblical revelation, scientific evidence, and cumulative experience as they relate to health and wholeness. Our mission includes assisting the global Christian church in fulfilling its mandate to promote health and healing among the nations.
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  • Health, the Bible and the Church book access
  • Quest for Health
  • Understanding Health
  • History of Health
  • History of Christianity
  • Integrated Mission
  • Medical Mission Prep.
  • Missions in the 21st Century
  • Cultural Transformation
  • Unity in Our Diversity
  • Annotated Bibliography
  • Ralph Winter
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  • About
    • What is Health
    • Mission Statement
    • Our History
    • Beliefs and Values
    • Organizational Structure
  • People
    • Leadership Team >
      • Arnold Gorske
      • Daniel W. O’Neill, MD, MA(Th)
      • Greg & Candi Seager
      • Mike Soderling
      • Mark Harris
      • Grace Tazelaar
      • Bruce Dahlman, MD
      • Michael N. Dohn
    • Global Collaborators >
      • Dr Ravi I. Jayakaran
      • Apolos Landa Tucto
      • Dr. E. Anthony Allen
      • Rufino L. Macagba
      • Vinod Shah
      • Dr Annelies Wilder-Smith
      • Peter Yorgin
  • Initiatives
    • Unstuck Peer Consultations
    • Christian Journal for Global Health >
      • Journal
      • Donate
    • Best Practices in Global Health Missions >
      • Best Practice Documents
      • Consensus Papers
      • Potential Best Practices Topics
      • Primary Author/Facilitator
    • Christian Global Health in Perspective
    • Lausanne Health for All Nations Issue Network
  • Resources
    • All Creation Groans
    • Understanding Health
    • History of Health >
      • Health, the Bible, and the Church Book Access >
        • Quest for Health
    • History of Christianity
    • Integrated Mission
    • Medical Mission Prep
    • Missions in the 21st Century
    • Cultural Transformation
    • Unity in Our Diversity
    • Annotated Bibliography
    • Ralph Winter
    • Conferences
    • Links
  • Contact
  • Donate
    • Health for All Nations
    • Christian Journal for Global Health
    • Best Practices in Global Health Missions