Metrics: What Counts in Global Health

by Vincanne Adams

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822360977
• ISBN13: 9780822360971
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"