Health Care Volunteer Demographics (cont)
•Africa designated as greatest health care access shortage according to 2006 WHO Annual Report
–Trend in Africa: In general, national NGOs made up 50-75% of the total number of NGOs operating in the health sector, while the presence of international NGOs increased substantially in countries under emergencies.2
•During disasters: Sri Lanka had major corruption in NGO usage of cash donations and in-kind product post-Tsunami.
–Rapid increase in number of NGOs during a disaster can cause corruption by overwhelming non-profit/volunteer system and thus actually becoming ineffective.
•Counteracted only when required to use reliable donation usage evaluation methods
•Best way to evaluate medical groups is by a clinical/outcomes approach tied to health care costs/savings.
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1 Independent Sector.  A New Non-Profit Almanac In Brief: Facts and Figures on the Independent Sector, 2001
2 http://www.who.int/civilsociety/documents/en/CSICaseStudyE.pdf pg. 19