Health behavior and social crisis in the era of COVID-19 in Malawi: A decolonizing approach to a qualitative study

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作者：

Lee, Haeok ^{[1
]}

Bauleni, Esther ^{[2
]}

Maluwa, Veronica ^{[2
]}

Lee, Sangah ^{[3
]}

Mtengezo, Jasintha T. ^{[1
]}

Kamvaunamwali, Madalitso ^{[4
]}

Mlombe, Yohannie ^{[5
]}

机构：

[1] NYU, Meyers Coll Nursing, New York, NY 10012 USA

[2] Daeyang Univ, Fac Hlth Sci, Lilongwe, Malawi

[3] Univ Massachusetts Boston, Manning Coll Nursing & Hlth Sci, Boston, MA USA

[4] Lilongwe Dist Hlth Off, Bwaila Hosp, Minist Hlth, Lilongwe, Malawi

[5] Kamuzu Univ Hlth Sci, Sch Med & Oral Hlth, Pathol Dept, Hematol Unit, Blantyre, Malawi

来源：

NURSING OUTLOOK | 2025年 / 73卷 / 01期

关键词：

COVID-19; pandemic; Malawi; Cervical cancer screening; Decolonizing approach; HEPATITIS-B; VIRUS;

D O I：

10.1016/j.outlook.2024.102317

中图分类号：

R47 [护理学];

学科分类号：

1011 ;

摘要：

Background: The rapid spread and severity of COVID-19 brought major health challenges and dealt a heavy blow to key health services and daily life in Africa, including Malawi. Purpose: To explore and examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cervical cancer (CC) prevention behavior in Malawi through a decolonized lens. Methods: A qualitative descriptive study informed by a decolonized perspective was conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic. A purposive sampling was taken from 17 key informant interviews, including, seven Malawian women living with HIV infection (WLWHIV). Results: Themes explored were that COVID-19 was indiscriminate towards not only health deterioration but also a social crisis and health was no longer an individual problem but a public and global issue across borders. Conclusion: To uproot global health inequities, templates revolved around Western ways of knowing over national and global health need to be reexamined and methods reinvented to be relevant to local ways of knowing. (c) 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

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