Article ID: CBB575402754

Datafication and accountability in public health: Introduction to a special issue (August 2019)

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Hoeyer, Klaus (Author)
Bauer, Susanne (Author)
Pickersgill, Martyn (Author)


Social Studies of Science
Volume: 49
Issue: 4
Pages: 459-475


Publication Date: August 2019
Edition Details: Special Issue: From Person to Population and Back: Exploring Accountability in Public Health
Language: English

In recent years and across many nations, public health has become subject to forms of governance that are said to be aimed at establishing accountability. In this introduction to a special issue, From Person to Population and Back: Exploring Accountability in Public Health, we suggest opening up accountability assemblages by asking a series of ostensibly simple questions that inevitably yield complicated answers: What is counted? What counts? And to whom, how and why does it count? Addressing such questions involves staying attentive to the technologies and infrastructures through which data come into being and are made available for multiple political agendas. Through a discussion of public health, accountability and datafication we present three key themes that unite the various papers as well as illustrate their diversity.

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Authors & Contributors
Verónica Pérez-Cerecedo
Cool, Alison
Koichi Kameda
Włodzimierz Gogołek
José de Jesús Brambila-Paz
María Magdalena Rojas-Rojas
Concepts
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Medicine
Public health
Big data
Information technology
Data collection; methods
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
Places
Singapore
Argentina
United States
Sweden
Japan
Germany
Institutions
Accountable Care Organizations (Medical care)
World Health Organization (WHO)
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