Metrics: What Counts In Global Health (Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography) - 9780822360834

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 metricsùeven 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

• | Author: Vincanne Adams
• | Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• | Publication Date: Mar 04, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 264 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Social Science
• | ISBN-10: 0822360837
• | ISBN-13: 9780822360834