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Author Harris, Matthew

Title Decolonizing Healthcare Innovation : Low-Cost Solutions from Low-Income Countries
Published Milton, New York : Taylor & Francis Group, 2024

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Description 1 online resource (273 p.)
Contents Section 1. Decolonization and why it is needed in healthcare innovation -- The unwritten rulebook of global health -- UK healthcare is too expensive, frugal innovation is the answer -- Core and peripheral knowledge in global health -- False dichotomies in global health : us vs. them --- Coloniality in global health -- Reverse innovation as a decolonial strategy -- Decolonizing higher education curricula -- Decolononization, decoloniality and radicalized organizations : praxis and reflections -- Section 2. Low-cost solutions from low-income countries -- A structured approach to critical analysis of frugal innovations from low-income countries -- Mosquito net mesh for hernia repair -- Sayeba's method for post-partum haemorrhage -- Phase change material for neonatal therapeutic hypothermia -- Arbutus drill system for orthopaedic surgery -- Tilapia fish skin for severe burns -- Ponseti technique for congenital club feet correction -- Conclusion and next steps
Notes Description based upon print version of record
What Problem Is the Innovation Solving?
Subject Medical innovations -- Social aspects -- Developing countries
Medical innovations -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
Medical economics -- Developing countries
Medical economics -- Great Britain
Decolonization.
Decolonization
Medical economics
Medical innovations -- Social aspects
Developing countries
Great Britain
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1000932052
9781000932058