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Metrics

Paperback • 2016 • English

Metrics

By Vincanne Adams

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About the book

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 must evaluate the potential effectiveness and p...Show more

Social and cultural anthropology

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ISBN

9780822360971

Publisher

Duke University Press

Published year

2016

Language

English

Original title

Metrics

Format

Paperback

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