17 articles in this issue
H Elliott Larson
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Bruce Dahlman
Editorial on mission hospitals as key contributors to capacity-building in underserved areas through discipleship and education for a dedicated healhcare work force.
John Varghese Thekkekara
Introduction: The Christian Healthcare Network is the largest faith-based healthcare network in India, functioning, most often, in the hard-to-reach and underdeveloped areas. It is facing serious challenges such as being forced to comply with the re... see more
Kate Long, Sujith Chandy, Rich Feeley, Richard Laing, Lance Laird, Veronika Wirtz
Background: India’s health system is currently experiencing rapid change. Achieving India’s aspirations for improved population health and universal health coverage will require the contribution of all health providers; public, private-for-profit, not-for... see more
Caleb Flint, VIjay Anand Ismavel, Ann Miriam
Sabina Ampon-Wireko, Zhou Lu Lin, Henry Asante Antwi, Ebenezer Wireko Brobbey, Arielle Doris Kachie Tetgoum
Background: The world currently has experienced an unimaginable increase in life expectancy rate (LER). There are many factors that influence LER, including faith and forgiveness. However, an ongoing argument among scholars is whether health i... see more
Susan Andrews
Background: Recent reviews of published guidelines for conducting short-term medical missions (STMM) identify significant concerns about the lack of adherence and of formal regulations concurrent with the increasing number of individuals and organiz... see more
Paul West Okojie, Richard Lane
Introduction: Healthcare resources are disproportionately distributed between urban and rural areas in many developing countries including Nigeria. Barriers to healthcare like cultural beliefs, poor education, and financial constraints make many rura... see more
Gretchen Slover
Background: This research was birthed in 2017 during a trip to Lusaka, Zambia, with the purpose of offering fourth-year, medical students attending the University of Zambia, School of Medicine, lectures on psychology topics as part of their clinical studi... see more
Perry Jansen
Introduction: The extensive network of Christian mission hospitals in India faced an abrupt loss of financing and supply of medical missionaries during and after independence in 1947. Many of the remaining went on to become indigenously owned Christ... see more
Ruth Dykstra, Jason Paltzer
This review identified and determined core aspects of holistic health models often used in faith-based global development to integrate the spiritual determinant of health into a multiple determinants framework. Understanding such models and their similari... see more
Bernt Lindtjorn
In 1950, the Norwegian Lutheran Mission (NLM) began holistic mission work, including health work in Yirga Alem in Sidama in Southern Ethiopia. The hospital, which had served as a military hospital during the Italian war (1936-41), became a mission h... see more
A call to bring together healthcare and mission endeavors in a seamless service using Jesus' life and ministry as a model.
Lois Joy Armstrong
Paul J Hudson
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Sundeep Manoth, Bethany Carr
Universal health coverage is still out of reach for many people in the world and not surprisingly, it is those in rural areas made up of largely poor communities who are the most deprived. Setting Up Community Health and Development Programmes in Low and ... see more
Matthew T Bersagel Braley
Book Review