International Medical Corp: Delivering Health Care and Relief to People in Need

INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL
CORP
NAME OF THE STUDENT
Overview of Organisation
 International Medical Corp is a private
organisation and also non-profit group.
This organisation helps the people
seeking health care in the worst
situations.
 The organisation work in every where in
the world.
 They have 7,000 workers globally and
recruit people from the local areas where
they work (International Medical Corps,
2019).
 They help in providing hunger helps to
the people seeking help or providing
health care to lower economic countries
in order to reduce mortality or morbidity
rate.
 They help people affected by wars or
natural calamities and also provide
health education to people as well.
 The organisation took an extra initiative
for the Ebola virus affected people as
well (Wong et al., 2015).
Contribution to the Common
Good
 According to the organisational data it can be
seen that they have helped in delivering 62,300
babies with the help of skilled professionals in
2018 (International Medical Corps, 2019).
 They have helped people all over the world by
providing hygiene items approximately to
126,500 people and also be educating people to
live healthy (International Medical Corps, 2019).
 In 2018 they also provided more than 7.6 million
people around the world by providing mental
health care, specialised care, nutrition,
psychological support along with other services
(International Medical Corps, 2019).
 They also provide health care training across the
world and their reports highlighted that they
have provided training to 72,000 people in 2018
for delivering improved care (International
Medical Corps, 2019).
 The factor of common good should be
provided without any discrimination and the
organisation follows this aspect with priority.
My Professional Contribution
 I should consider equity in health for every
person for improved care providence.
 I should follow the standards of care for
providing health care to every person of
the world without discriminating
regardless gender, age, race, culture social
background, socio economic structure and
others (Artiga & Hinton, 2018) .
 I should also value the cultural aspects of
every individual or population in order to
provide improved care (Knopf et al., 2016).
 As a care professional of the International
Medical Corp I should be able to follow the
mission and vision of the organisation and
provide justice to the people seeking
health care (Moaddab et al., 2015).
 On the other hand I should be able to help
the people based on the requirement of
the person.
References
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M., ... & Hunt, P. C. (2016). School-based health centers to advance health
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51(1), 114-126.
Moaddab, A., McCullough, L. B., Chervenak, F. A., Fox, K. A., Aagaard, K. M.,
Salmanian, B., ... & Shamshirsaz, A. A. (2015). Health care justice and its
implications for current policy of a mandatory waiting period for elective
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Wong, K. K., Perdue, C. L., Malia, J., Kenney, J. L., Peng, S., Gwathney, J. K., &
Raczniak, G. A. (2015). Supportive care of the first 2 Ebola virus disease
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Introduction
 International Medical Corp is the
organisation seeking relieve of the
people devastated by natural disaster or
war.
 This organisation deliver health care,
training and the condition so that the
they can be able to find the condition
that help them relieve from the disaster
(International Medical Corps, 2019).
 The focus of this presentation is to
provide knowledge regarding the change
and justice in global health care.
Figures: Health care programs
(International Medical Corps, 2019)