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Metrics : what counts in global health / Vincanne Adams, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Critical global health
- Critical global health - evidence, efficacy, ethnography
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World health--Research.
- World health.
- World health--Econometric models.
- Health status indicators--Evaluation.
- Health status indicators.
- Social indicators--Evaluation.
- Social indicators.
- Global Health.
- Health Status Indicators.
- Health Policy.
- Statistics as Topic.
- Public Health Practice.
- Evaluation.
- Econometric models.
- Research.
- Medical Subjects:
- Global Health.
- Health Status Indicators.
- Health Policy.
- Statistics as Topic.
- Public Health Practice.
- Physical Description:
- 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- This volume's contributors evaluate the accomplishments, limits, and consequences of using quantitative metrics in global health. Whether analyzing maternal mortality rates, the relationships between political goals and metrics data, or the links between health outcomes and a program's fiscal support, the contributors question the ability of metrics to solve global health problems. They capture a moment when global health scholars and practitioners must evaluate the potential effectiveness and pitfalls of different metrics-even as they remain elusive and problematic. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Metrics of the global sovereign : numbers and stories in global health / Vincanne Adams
- Estimating death : a close reading of maternal mortality metrics in Malawi / Claire L. Wendland
- The politics of monitoring maternal mortality in Nigeria / Adeola Oni-Orisan
- The power of data : global malaria governance and the Senegalese data retention strike / Marlee Tichenor
- Native sovereignty by the numbers : the metrics of Yupik behavioral health programs / Molly Hales
- Metrics and market logics in global health / Susan Erikson
- When good works count / Lily Walkover
- When numbers and stories collide : randomized controlled trials and the search for ethnographic fidelity in the Veterans Administration / Carolyn Smith-Morris
- The tyranny of the widget : an American medical aid organization's struggles with quantification / Pierre Minn
- Epilogue: What counts in good global health? / Vincanne Adams.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-251) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822360834
- 0822360837
- 9780822360971
- 0822360977
- OCLC:
- 908990424
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