Metrics
Subtitle: What Counts in Global Health
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Published: Mar 04, 2016
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780822360834
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"--Page [4] of cover.
Notes: Source title: Metrics: What Counts in Global Health (Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography)