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Winning Hearts and Minds Through Medicine: The Joint Military Medical Service's Unique Africa Opportunity

Winning Hearts and Minds Through Medicine: The Joint Military Medical Service's Unique Africa Opportunity

Bobb, David W.

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Medical ReferenceArmed ForcesGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1288256361
ISBN13: 9781288256365
Publisher: Biblioscholar
Published: Nov 9 2012
Pages: 48
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.10 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Broadly speaking, this paper will explore the role military medicine can play to further AFRICOM's goals, and will comprise three sections. First, AFRICOM itself will be briefly discussed in regard to stated objectives for the command, commander's intent, and how military medicine fits into the furtherance of these. Second, it is impossible to discuss potential military medicine roles without first exploring some of the issues and problems indigenous to current African health systems. Lastly, but most importantly, this paper will examine the roles military medicine can play, and some it should not try to play, that will have a truly lasting impact on the African people. The central thesis of this paper then, is that the new United States Africa Command may be just the right organization at just the right time to allow military medicine the opportunity to effectuate real change in African healthcare. However, this can occur only if the considerations discussed and recommendations listed are incorporated into US Africa Command's overall theater security strategy as part of its medical diplomacy. Otherwise, military medicine will continue down a business as usual approach to African healthcare challenges without availing itself of the unique opportunities the AFRICOM organizational structure provides.

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