Metrics: What Counts in Global Health

Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography

by Vincanne Adams

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

Genres: Anthropology, Nonfiction, Medical, Medicine, Science

264 pages, Paperback

First published March 4, 2016

Reviews

[Sivananthi T · Rating 2 out of 5]

This took a long time to complete. But raises a very interesting question that the metric utilised to fund global health are not wholistic enough to help create a cohesive system to serve people or create full health awareness in citizens.

[Mills College Library]

362.1072 M5942 2016