Metrics : what counts in global health / Vincanne Adams, editor.

Date:
[2016]
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Publication/Creation

Durham : Duke University Press, [2016]

Physical description

258 pages : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-251) and index.

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.

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    WA530.1 2016M59
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  • 9780822360834
  • 0822360837
  • 9780822360971
  • 0822360977