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| Title |
Brain Gains: a literature review of medical missions to low and middle-income countries
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Health Services Research, May 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6963-12-134 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Alexandra LC Martiniuk, Mitra Manouchehrian, Joel A Negin, Anthony B Zwi |
| Abstract |
Healthcare professionals' participation in short-term medical missions to low and middle income countries (LMIC) to provide healthcare has become common over the past 50 years yet little is known about the quantity and quality of these missions. The aim of this study was to review medical mission publications over 25 years to better understand missions and their potential impact on health systems in LMICs. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 35 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 7 | 20% |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 14% |
| Australia | 3 | 9% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |
| Mexico | 1 | 3% |
| Malawi | 1 | 3% |
| Chile | 1 | 3% |
| Singapore | 1 | 3% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 14 | 40% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 24 | 69% |
| Scientists | 6 | 17% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 3 | 9% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 6% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 185 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 1% |
| United States | 2 | 1% |
| New Zealand | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 180 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 28 | 15% |
| Other | 20 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 20 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 20 | 11% |
| Researcher | 18 | 10% |
| Other | 42 | 23% |
| Unknown | 37 | 20% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 75 | 41% |
| Social Sciences | 17 | 9% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 16 | 9% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 9 | 5% |
| Arts and Humanities | 4 | 2% |
| Other | 17 | 9% |
| Unknown | 47 | 25% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 32. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 September 2019.
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#1,216,768
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#340
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#6,524
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#6
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