ReviewPLOS global public health2023
Historical determinants of neurosurgical inequities in Africa and the African diaspora: A review and analysis of coloniality.
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- International neurosurgery rotation in low- and middle-income countries: a report and roadmap for equitable collaboration and bidirectional learning.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2026Article
- Decolonizing global health: a scoping review of its key components, proposed actions, and contributors.Global health research and policy · 2025Article
- A public health framework for reparations and generational healing in Haiti.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Global neurosurgery partnership: need for more adequate collaborations between high-income countries and low-income countries.Acta neurochirurgica · 2024Article
- The availability, access, challenges and advancements in neurosurgical care in Africa: a mini review.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2024Review
- Colonisation and its aftermath: reimagining global surgery.BMJ global health · 2024Review
- Editorial: Low-cost patient-specific cranial implants for cranioplasty.Acta neurochirurgica · 2023Article
- Editors as allies: Our two-year experience at PLOS Global Public Health.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
The movement to decolonize global health challenges clinicians and researchers of sub-disciplines, like global neurosurgery, to redefine their field. As an era of racial reckoning recentres the colonial roots of modern health disparities, reviewing the historical determinants of these disparities can constructively inform decolonization. This article presents a review and analysis of the historical determinants of neurosurgical inequities as understood by a group of scholars who share Sub-Saharan African descent. Vignettes profiling the colonial histories of Cape Verde, Rwanda, Cameroon, Ghana, Brazil, and Haiti illustrate the role of the colonial legacy in the currently unmet need for neurosurgical care in each of these nations. Following this review, a bibliographic lexical analysis of relevant terms then introduces a discussion of converging historical themes, and practical suggestions for transforming global neurosurgery through the decolonial humanism promulgated by anti-racist practices and the dialogic frameworks of conscientization.
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