Emergency medical services impact evaluations in low and middle-income countries must prioritize community-led approaches, moving beyond mortality outcomes to consider factors like response times, economic impacts, and inclusion of underprivileged minorities. By co-creating context-tailored measures of success with local stakeholders, a decolonial holistic approach can shift focus towards long-term wellbeing and sustainability, challenging neocolonial hegemony in resource allocation for EMS systems.
Journal Article by Mirza UJ, Stassen W and Christie SA in BMC Surg
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