Decolonizing Healthcare Innovation

This fascinating book offers a pathway for the NHS to adopt low-cost but effective innovations from areas of the world traditionally seen as beneficiaries rather than providers of help and support.

Autorentext

Matthew Harris is a Clinical Senior Lecturer in Public Health Medicine, Honorary Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Director of Postgraduate Taught Courses in the School of Public Health, Imperial College London, and Theme Lead for Innovation and Evaluation in the NIHR Northwest London Applied Research Collaborative, UK. He has lived and worked in Brazil as a family doctor, in Ethiopia working for the WHO in immunization programmes, and in Mozambique as an HIV Technical Advisor, and served for two years as a Global Health Policy advisor to the UK government.

Inhalt

1. The Unwritten Rulebook of Global Health, 2. UK Healthcare is Too Expensive, Frugal Innovation is the Answer, 3. Core and Peripheral Knowledge in Global Health, 4. False Dichotomies in Global Health: Us vs Them, 5. Coloniality in Global Health, 6. Reverse Innovation as a Decolonial Strategy, 7. Decolonizing Higher Education Curricula, 8. Decolonization, Decoloniality and Racialised Organizations: Praxis and Reflections, 9. A Structured Approach to Critical Analysis of Frugal Innovations from Low-Income Countries, 10. Mosquito Net Mesh for Hernia Repair, 11. Sayeba's Method for Post-Partum Haemorrhage, 12. Phase Change Material for Neonatal Therapeutic Hypothermia, 13. Arbutus Drill System for Orthopaedic Surgery, 14. Tilapia Fish Skin for Severe Burns, 15. Ponseti Technique for Congenital Club Feet Correction, 16. Conclusion and Next Steps