Why is repositioning public health innovation towards a social paradigm necessary? A reflection on the field of public health through the examples of Ebola and Covid-19

Abstract Health innovations are generally oriented on a techno-economic vision. In this perspective, technologies are seen as an end in themselves, and there is no arrangement between the technical and the social values of innovation. This vision prevails in sanitary crises, in which management is c...

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Main Authors: Marietou Niang, Sophie Dupéré, Hassane Alami, Marie-Pierre Gagnon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-04-01
Series:Globalization and Health
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12992-021-00695-3

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