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Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Metrics: What Counts in Global Health
Duke University Press
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ISBN electronic:
978-0-8223-7448-0
Publication date:
2016
Book Chapter
Metrics Politics
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Published:March 2016
Global health institutions and interventions are dependent on the production of local health data in the Global South for evaluating and justifying their projects. The crucial labor of producing these local health data is often rendered invisible by the neutral use of metrics by global health projects. However, the 2010–13 Senegalese health worker data retention strike made clear the importance of this labor, as it made explicit the implicit reciprocal trade relationship of data for funding in vertical global health fights. Appealing both to national and global representation, and astutely discerning the importance of the data they produce on a...
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