The Fruits of Volunteerism

The power of volunteerism.

m o y i t i v m w a k p i d t t s F R I t t c t s d a f e a t e n July 1, 2002, I completed my 10-year term as Editorn-Chief of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. hat a great privilege it was. I retired from the University f California-San Francisco School of Medicine on Februry 1, 2003, and in April 2003 was called to be a full-time olunteer for the Church of Jesus Christ of La...

The Ethics of Medical Volunteerism.

Responding to disparities in health, thousands of health care providers volunteer annually for short-term medical service trips (MSTs) to serve communities in need as a result of environmental, geographic, historical, or sociopolitical factors. Although well intentioned, short-term MSTs have the potential to benefit and harm those involved, including participants and communities being served. T...

Positive emotions in volunteerism.

Volunteerism is a well consolidated social phenomenon in our society. However, its rapid growth in the last few years has complicated the integration of theoretical knowledge and its application in organizational settings. Taking into account that nowadays, one of the chief problems of volunteer organizations is sustained volunteer service, the object of this work is to verify, within the conte...

Positive Emotions in Volunteerism

growth in the last few years has complicated the integration of theoretical knowledge and its application in organizational settings. Taking into account that nowadays, one of the chief problems of volunteer organizations is sustained volunteer service, the object of this work is to verify, within the context of the psychosocial model of sustained volunteerism (Vecina, 2001), the type of relati...

Rape Crisis Volunteerism