Metrics: What Counts in Global Health (Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography)
In Metrics: What Counts in Global Health, Vincanne Adams investigates the essential metrics driving global health efforts. Part of the Critical Global Health series, the book analyzes evidence, efficacy, and ethnography to reveal how numbers shape health policies and practices worldwide. It offers a critical perspective on the quantification of health in diverse contexts.
About This Book
Metrics: What Counts in Global Health examines the frameworks that quantify health outcomes worldwide. Authored by Vincanne Adams, it is part of the Critical Global Health series, focusing on evidence, efficacy, and ethnography.
The book addresses how measurement tools influence health interventions and decision-making in diverse global contexts. It highlights the interplay between data and real-world health challenges.
Through a critical lens, it explores the implications of these metrics on policy and practice. The work contributes to understanding the ethnographic dimensions of health metrics.
Readers gain insights into the broader significance of what counts in global health initiatives. It underscores the need for nuanced approaches to health data.
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