TY  - BOOK
AU  - Adams,Vincanne
TI  - Metrics: what counts in global health 
T2  - Critical global health  - evidence, efficacy, ethnography
SN  - 9780822360834 (hardcover : alk. paper)
AV  - RA441 .M48 2016
U1  - 362.1072 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Durham
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - Salud Mundial
KW  - Research
KW  - World health
KW  - Econometric models
KW  - Health status indicators
KW  - Evaluation
KW  - Social indicators
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-251) and index; 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
ER  -