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ArticleInternational journal of health policy and management2024

The Rhetoric of Decolonizing Global Health Fails to Address the Reality of Settler Colonialism: Gaza as a Case in Point.

Eivind Engebretsen, Mona Baker

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Article in International journal of health policy and management, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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10 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The Formation and Transformation of Medical Apartheid in Palestine: A Historical Examination.International journal of social determinants of health and health services · 2026
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  2. Are We All Post Traumatic Yet? A Critical Narrative Review of Trauma Among Arab Refugees.International journal of social determinants of health and health services · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Eivind EngebretsenSustainable Health Unit, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.ORCID 0000-0001-9455-110X
Mona BakerSustainable Health Unit, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.ORCID 0000-0001-5724-6229

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This editorial critiques the existing literature on decolonizing global health, using the current assault on health in Gaza as a case in point. It argues that the failure to address the ongoing violence and blatant targeting of health facilities, personnel and innocent civilians demonstrates most clearly the limitations of an approach that is strong on rhetoric and weak on mounting a forthright challenge to the entire system supporting and perpetuating settler colonialism. We propose a more radical rethinking of the position of global health institutions within the current neoliberal system and of the systems of knowledge production that continue to underpin the existing colonial approach to the health of victims of settler colonialism.

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ColonialismGlobal HealthHumansMiddle EastViolenceDecolonizationGazaGlobal HealthPalestinePolitics of HealthcareSettler Colonialism

Identifiers

PMID39099519
PMCPMC11607526

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