Survey of patient perceptions towards short-term mobile medical aid for those living in a medically underserved area of Swaziland

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• 作者：Yi-Hao Weng ; Hung-Yi Chiou ; Chi-Cheng Tu ; Say-Tsung Liao…
• 关键词：Short ; term medical mission (STMM) ; Humanitarian aid ; Questionnaire ; Patient ; Satisfaction
• 刊名：BMC Health Services Research
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：December 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：15
• 期：1
• 全文大小：674 KB
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• 作者单位：Yi-Hao Weng (1)
  Hung-Yi Chiou (2) (3)
  Chi-Cheng Tu (4)
  Say-Tsung Liao (4)
  Patience Thulile Bhembe (5) (6)
  Chun-Yuh Yang (7)
  Ya-Wen Chiu (3) (6)
  
  1. Department of Pediatrics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
  2. School of Public Health, College of Public Health and Nutrition, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
  3. Health Policy and Care Research Center, College of Public Health and Nutrition, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
  4. Taiwan Medical Mission, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
  5. Southern Africa Nazarene University, Manzini, Swaziland
  6. Master Program in Global Health and Development, College of Public Health and Nutrition, Taipei Medical University, 250 Wu-Hsing Street, Taipei, 110, Taiwan
  7. Department of Public Health, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
  
• 刊物主题：Public Health; Health Administration; Health Informatics; Nursing Management/Nursing Research;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1472-6963

文摘

Background An increasing number of short-term medical missions (STMMs) are being dispatched to provide humanitarian healthcare; however, extensive investigations on how recipient patients perceive STMMs are lacking. The current study evaluated the perceptions of patients toward medical services provided by a Taiwanese STMM in a resource-poor area of Swaziland.