Global health discourse that either underinforms or misinforms its audience is “global health nonsense.” Such nonsense is widespread, and jeopardises improvement in global health governance, argue Stein, Storeng, and de Bengy Puyvallée.
Key messages
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Spin, hyperbole, meaningless buzzwords, and technocratic jargon have become increasingly common in global health discourse. They are part of a broader phenomenon labelled “global health nonsense”
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Three main forms of global health nonsense are obfuscation, misrepresentation, and omission of relevant information
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Global health nonsense must be called out, because it stifles collective efforts to understand, critically assess, and improve global health governance
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