Why 'elevating country voice' is not decolonizing global health: A frame analysis of in-depth interviews.

ABSTRACT: Recent calls for global health decolonization suggest that addressing the problems of global health may require more than 'elevating country voice'. We employed a frame analysis of the diagnostic, prognostic, and motivational framings of both discourses and analyzed the implications of convergence or divergence of these frames for global health practice and scholarship. We used two major sources of data-a review of literature and in-depth interviews with actors in global health practice and shapers of discourse around elevating country voice and decolonizing global health. Using NVivo 12, a deductive analysis approach was applied to the literature and interview transcripts using diagnostic, prognostic and motivational framings as themes. We found that calls for elevating country voice cons

SUBMITTER: Kunnuji M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10022394 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature