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Metrics: What Counts in Global Health

By Vincanne Adams

Book information

Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Year
2016
ISBN
0822360977, 9780822360971
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
612 kB (626193 bytes)
Series
Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Edition
Reprint
Pages
264\0
Time added
2024-05-21 00:40:16

Description

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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