Metrics
What Counts in Global Health
1st Edition
Published on 25. February 2016
288 pages
978-0-8223-7448-0 (ISBN)
Description
The contributors to Metrics use ethnographic evidence from around the globe to evaluate the accomplishments, limits, and the consequences of applying metrics to global health. Now the standard in measuring global health program success, metrics has far implications that extend beyond patients to the political and financial realms.
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Vincanne Adams is Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
Content
Introduction / Vincanne Adams 1
1. Metrics of the Global Sovereign: Numbers and Stories in Global Health / Vincanne Adams 19
Part I. Getting Good Numbers
2. Estimating Death: A Close Reading of Maternal Mortality Metrics in Malawi / Claire L. Wendland 57
3. The Obligation ot Count: The Politics of Monitoring Maternal Mortality in Nigeria / Adeola Oni-Orisan 82
Part II. Metrics Politics
4. The Power of Data: Global Malaria Governance and the Senegalese Data Retention Strike / Marlee Tichenor 105
5. Native Sovereignty by the Numbers: The Metrics of Yup'ik Behavioral Health Programs / Molly Hales 125
Part III. Metrics Economics
6. Metrics and Market Logics of Global Health / Susan Erikson 147
7. When Good Works Count / Lily Walkover 163
Part IV. Storied Metrics
8. When Numbers and Stories Collide: Randomized Controlled Trials and the Search for Ethnographic Fidelity in the Veterans Administration / Carolyn Smith-Morris 181
9. The Tyranny of the Widget: An American Medical Aid Organization's Struggles with Quantification / Pierre Minn 203
Epilogue: What Counts in Good Global Health? / Vincanne Adams 225
References 231
Contributors 253
Index 255
1. Metrics of the Global Sovereign: Numbers and Stories in Global Health / Vincanne Adams 19
Part I. Getting Good Numbers
2. Estimating Death: A Close Reading of Maternal Mortality Metrics in Malawi / Claire L. Wendland 57
3. The Obligation ot Count: The Politics of Monitoring Maternal Mortality in Nigeria / Adeola Oni-Orisan 82
Part II. Metrics Politics
4. The Power of Data: Global Malaria Governance and the Senegalese Data Retention Strike / Marlee Tichenor 105
5. Native Sovereignty by the Numbers: The Metrics of Yup'ik Behavioral Health Programs / Molly Hales 125
Part III. Metrics Economics
6. Metrics and Market Logics of Global Health / Susan Erikson 147
7. When Good Works Count / Lily Walkover 163
Part IV. Storied Metrics
8. When Numbers and Stories Collide: Randomized Controlled Trials and the Search for Ethnographic Fidelity in the Veterans Administration / Carolyn Smith-Morris 181
9. The Tyranny of the Widget: An American Medical Aid Organization's Struggles with Quantification / Pierre Minn 203
Epilogue: What Counts in Good Global Health? / Vincanne Adams 225
References 231
Contributors 253
Index 255
