Christian Journal for Global Health  

H Elliott Larson

A survey of articles in Christian Journal for Global Health, Volume 3, Issue 2, November 2016

Vinod Shah, H Elliott Larson, Nathan Grills, Michael Soderling, Daniel O'Neill

A commentary on four reports of the pre-conference on medical education in low and middle income countries and efforts by mainly North American physicians to provide assistance held November, 2015.  The authors address issues of participatory learnin... see more

Douglas L Fountain, Edward Mukooza, Edward Kanyesigye

Over 26,000 students at a major Christian University in Uganda have completed a single semester course on Health and Wholeness. While common in other higher education contexts, general education courses and health education courses in particular are uncom... see more

Nicole Butcher, Adeline Sitther, Jachin Velavan, Elizabeth John, Mary Chandra Thomas, Nathan Grills

Community health workers (CHWs) have long played a key role in delivering healthcare in rural and remote populations, through primary care, prevention and education. Numerous mechanisms of training and supporting CHWs have been implemented, and the WHO ha... see more

Lyubov D Slashcheva, Mark A Strand, Ruth E VanReken, Collin Sanford, J Dwight Phillips, Gloria Halverson

One of the challenges facing international healthcare missionaries is that of maintaining up-to-date knowledge and staying current with professional certification. Since 1978, annual programs by the Christian Medical and Dental Associations have offe... see more

Deborah A Kroeker, Anne Walling

Background: Medical Education International (MEI), an organization that provides faculty development to medical educators in developing countries, wanted information on the program effectiveness of its faculty development conferences.Objectives: To assess... see more

Michael F Brooks, Maggie Ehrenfried

In a departure from traditional “vertical” healthcare interventions in low-resource settings that work to combat a single specific health issue, LifeNet International (LN) uses a horizontal conversion franchise to develop and measure healthcare capacity a... see more

Constance Sibongile Shumba, Jonathan Miyonga, Judith Kiconco, Patrick Kerchan, Tonny Tumwesigye

Background: Family planning confers unique benefits including preventing unintended pregnancies, improved maternal and child health outcomes and increased women’s access to education and economic opportunities.However, Uganda has a low contraceptive preva... see more

Rebekah Young, Matthew Reeve, Alex Devine, Lawrence Singh, Nathan Grills

Background: Disabled Peoples’ Organisations (DPOs) are organisations established by and for people with disabilities. Formation of DPOs in low- and middle-income countries is a key component of disability-inclusive development strategies. In some contexts... see more

Dr. Tomi Thomas, Dr. Anto Maliekal

All women need access to antenatal care in pregnancy, skilled care during childbirth, and care and support in the weeks after childbirth. This discussion tries to look into the life context of maternal and child health and the health scenario for women/gi... see more

Helen Anne Wordsworth

The implications of the Tübingen declarations for congregational involvement in health provide the setting for this commentary.  Using an example from the United Kingdom, where government health provision has become economically challenging and large... see more

Jose Miguel De Angulo, Luz Stella Losada

During the 20th Century Western society's thinking regarding health and wellbeing underwent profound and rapid changes. Towards the end of the century, a health paradigm based on social health determinants emerged, providing a strong foundation for influe... see more

Sharon Ann Falkenheimer

Western medical education has only recently sought to attend to the spiritual aspects of the patient. The overwhelming evidence of the role the spiritual plays in health and disease has led to movement to adopt a bio-psycho-social-spiritual model of care.... see more

Huw Morgan

Modern medicine has developed from an essentially Christian world-view and in Western countries has been greatly influenced by the Christian tradition of hospitality and caring for the sick. However during the 20th century medical education became increas... see more

Kathryn L Butler

An account of the limitations of a purely medical approach to cross-cultural service, and the leaarning that occurs by listening to what care recipients have to speak into care-giver's lives.

James D Smith, Dan Poenaru, J Dwight Phillips

The severe lack of human resources in the health care field in many countries has resulted in avid interest in global undergraduate medical education. Christian medical missionaries have, thus, a unique opportunity to contribute to transformative, holisti... see more

Stephen Paul Merry, Bruce Dahlman, Adam Sawatsky, Dennis Palmer, Kevin C. Shannon, Thomas D. Thacher

Graduate medical education is an excellent means of building the capacity of health care systems in low and middle Income Countries (LMIC) and a growing way for physicians in the U.S to get involved in integral mission – the proclamation and demonstration... see more

James D Smith, Dan Poenaru, David Thompson, J Dwight Phillips

Surgery has traditionally been an important aspect of services offered by mission hospitals, but only in the last 20 years has surgical residency training been incorporated into the mission hospital setting.  A working group of surgical educators met... see more

James D Smith, Roger P Holland, J Dwight Phillips, Sharon A Falkenheimer

As more mission groups become involved with health care education, by starting medical and nursing schools, postgraduate training programs and paramedical professional training, there is a need to recruit expatriate faculty from high income countries to h... see more