Vincanne Adams

Metrics

What Counts in Global Health

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9780822360971
• ISBN-10: 0822360977
• Artikelnr.: 42791548

Autorenporträt

Vincanne Adams, editor

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction / Vincanne Adams  1
1. Metrics of the Global Sovereign: Numbers and Stories in Global Health /
Vincanne Adams  19
Part I. Getting Good Numbers
2. Estimating Death: A Close Reading of Maternal Mortality Metrics in
Malawi / Claire L. Wendland  57
3. The Obligation ot Count: The Politics of Monitoring Maternal Mortality
in Nigeria / Adeola Oni-Orisan  82
Part II. Metrics Politics
4. The Power of Data: Global Malaria Governance and the Senegalese Data
Retention Strike / Marlee Tichenor  105
5. Native Sovereignty by the Numbers: The Metrics of Yup'ik Behavioral
Health Programs / Molly Hales  125
Part III. Metrics Economics
6. Metrics and Market Logics of Global Health / Susan Erikson  147
7. When Good Works Count / Lily Walkover  163
Part IV. Storied Metrics
8. When Numbers and Stories Collide: Randomized Controlled Trials and the
Search for Ethnographic Fidelity in the Veterans Administration / Carolyn
Smith-Morris  181
9. The Tyranny of the Widget: An American Medical Aid Organization's
Struggles with Quantification / Pierre Minn  203
Epilogue: What Counts in Good Global Health? / Vincanne Adams  225
References  231
Contributors  253
Index 255