Faith-Based Care Invisible to Health Researchers

July 23, 2015

(Sci Dev Net) – Christian, Islamic and other faith-based organisations provide extensive healthcare in the world’s poorest places, but are invisible to global health researchers, according to a series of papers published this month in medical journal The Lancet. The result is a dearth of data about the services that organisations such as Islamic Relief and the Salvation Army provide, the articles say.