Book ID: CBB730822176

Metrics: What Counts in Global Health (2016)

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Adams, Vincanne (Author)


Duke University Press


Publication Date: 2016
Physical Details: 264 pp.
Language: English

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.  Contributors. Vincanne Adams, Susan Erikson, Molly Hales, Pierre Minn, Adeola Oni-Orisan, Carolyn Smith-Morris, Marlee Tichenor, Lily Walkover, Claire L. Wendland

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Review Tobias Rees (2017) Review of "Metrics: What Counts in Global Health". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 147-149). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Kranke, Nina
Siibak, Andra
Włodzimierz Gogołek
Jessica Pykett
Kimura, Aya Hirata
Casini, Silvia
Concepts
Data collection; methods
Data analysis
Digital humanities
Psychology
Research methods
Technology and society
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
19th century
Modern
Places
United States
Scotland
Ecuador
Europe
Institutions
University of Aberdeen
International Biological Program
United States. Census Bureau
International Geophysical Year (IGY)
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