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
Summary
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-251) and index
Notes
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