Metrics: What Counts in Global Health (Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography)

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 pitfalls of different metrics—even as they remain elusive and problematic.
 Contributors. Vincanne Adams, Susan Erikson, Molly Hales, Pierre Minn, Adeola Oni-Orisan, Carolyn Smith-Morris, Marlee Tichenor, Lily Walkover, Claire L. Wendland

• Blind Spot: How Neoliberalism Infiltrated Global Health (California Series in Public Anthropology)
• Achieving Access: Professional Movements and the Politics of Health Universalism (The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work)
• Best Laid Plans: Cultural Entropy and the Unraveling of AIDS Media Campaigns
• Love, Money, and HIV: Becoming a Modern African Woman in the Age of AIDS
• Hoping to Help: The Promises and Pitfalls of Global Health Volunteering (The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work)
• Doomed Interventions: The Failure of Global Responses to AIDS in Africa
• On Infertile Ground
• Community Health Centers: A Movement and the People Who Made It Happen (Critical Issues in Health and Medicine)
• The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity
• When People Come First: Critical Studies in Global Health