Potential Best Practices Topics
- 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)
- church planting & growth
- 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
- Coordination/Collaboration with host country health systems
- 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
- 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
- Surgical issues
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Health in Transformational Development
- 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
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Mental Health
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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.