Telehealth programs are reaching patients that traditional healthcare systems never could. Here's how global telehealth is transforming mission work in underserved regions.
Data on child and adolescent mental disorders across the globe are limited, but prevalence rates vary from 8 to 24%, with treatment gaps up to 99%.
In this breakout session, we will explore cultural aspects of child mental health across the globe. How helpful are our “western” diagnoses for children and adolescents in the Global South? Does autism, trauma, depression, etc. look t...
The experience of healthcare missionaries is very different from most other missionaries such as bible translators and church planters. Healthcare missionaries are commonly confronted with life-and-death dilemmas, overwhelming desperate need, cross-cultural conflicting values, and great suffering. Healthcare missionaries are often powerfully burdened by moral injury, which can contribute to bur...
The communities missionaries serve often carry heavy psychological burdens, and so do the workers serving them. Here's what addressing mental health in missions looks like.
Plasmodium falciparum malaria, the most severe form of this disease, usually occurs in persons traveling without prophylaxis or with inadequate prophylaxis. Most cases of malaria occur in missionaries, long-term expatriates, and immigrants who have returned to the country of their origin to visit friends and family (VFR travelers). Failure to take adequate malaria prophylaxis may occur for econ...
For Christian healthcare workers, every patient interaction is a ministry opportunity. Here's how Christian care shapes the way medical missions operate around the world.
Cross-cultural mission work is messy. It almost never turns out as we expect. Despite this, God still chooses to use broken people that know Him, from around the globe, to communicate His message to the world. How do we deal with the mess, yet cling to the mystery-- "Christ in you, the hope of glory"? We must expect the mess, embrace it, and engage in the details. We will unpack key c...
Sustainable mission trips go beyond treating patients: they build local capacity, train providers, and establish infrastructure that outlasts any single deployment.
This session focuses on women on mission and will highlight the role of women on mission, the challenges faced and some ways to overcome these challenges. Examples of women on mission in the past as well as present day experiences will be used to bring to life the opportunities and the difficulties as well as the great joys of a woman on mission.
Session recorded on Friday, November 10th dur...
Mobile clinics are changing healthcare delivery in rural and underserved areas. Here's how global missions are using them and what makes them such an effective tool.
