Decolonizing global health: an agenda for research

This editorial outlines the background to the BMC Health Services Research collection on decolonizing global health. The discourse on decolonizing global health is gaining increasing momentum. These persistent ‘voices’ have coalesced into a ‘movement’. Several commentators have critiqued the way glo...

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Autores principales: Zakumumpa, Henry, Diop, Nafissatou, Alhassan, Robert Kaba
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10405469/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37550651
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-09834-5
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spelling pubmed-104054692023-08-08 Decolonizing global health: an agenda for research Zakumumpa, Henry Diop, Nafissatou Alhassan, Robert Kaba BMC Health Serv Res Editorial This editorial outlines the background to the BMC Health Services Research collection on decolonizing global health. The discourse on decolonizing global health is gaining increasing momentum. These persistent ‘voices’ have coalesced into a ‘movement’. Several commentators have critiqued the way global health continues to be structured and practiced. The colonial roots of global health dominance have come under an unprecedentedly intense spotlight amid pressure for reform. BioMed Central 2023-08-07 /pmc/articles/PMC10405469/ /pubmed/37550651 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-09834-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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