Characteristics of Activities of Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers Engaged in the Health and Hygiene Field / 国際保健医療

ABSTRACT

The Dispatch of Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers (JOCV), a program of Japan International Cooperation Agency(JICA), performed the 40th anniversary foundation in 2005. About half of 3,703 volunteers of the health and hygiene field dispatched by the end of August, 2004 are nurses. The tendencies of recent JOCV are increase of the number of volunteers based on liberal arts, increase of volunteers with high educational background and increase of the number of female volunteers.<br>The volunteers who live and work with local people do not remain in simple man power, but show a faithful work and a manner as a careerist. There are a problem to be able to see, discovery of a local method simply because they work among the people, and we should pay attention to a characteristic and the effectiveness of such a volunteers' activity more.<br>By investigation(n=397) for volunteer nurses, 36.5% receive higher education after return home. It is expected that volunteers study after return home and then engage in international health focusing on a public level as well as upper persons in developing countries.