... 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...

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...Metrics Politics 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...

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... Chapter 6 looks at Mexico and how its diversity is represented in genomic studies; it focuses on the role genetic data play in public health policy. genetics multiculturalism public health INMEGEN Mexico ...

... States, the Veterans Health Administration, this chapter examines some of the challenges of bringing qualitative data and research methodologies to bear within the politically charged, outcome-driven context of a U.S. government institution. An rct among veterans with spinal cord injury serves as a case...

... The demand for quantifiably measurable data poses significant challenges for global health initiatives that are not centered on clinical activities or the distribution of tangible resources.  Drawing from ethnographic research with Konbit Sante, an American medical aid organization intervening...

... movements, the experiential knowledge of performers influences their approaches to labor organizing, collective decision-making, accountability, consent culture, privacy, and sexual health. collaboration ethics of care consent culture sexual health data privacy ...

..., the Veterans Health Administration, this chapter examines some of the challenges of bringing qualitative data and research methodologies to bear within the politically charged, outcome-driven context of a U.S. government institution. An rct among veterans with spinal cord injury serves as a case study...

... This chapter explores Brazil and how its diversity is represented in genomic studies. It focuses on how genetic data are drawn into debates about affirmative action in higher education and health. genetics multiculturalism affirmative action Sergio Pena Brazil ...

... Chapter 9 uses data drawn from focus groups and interviews with “ordinary” members of the public (in practice, mainly university students). This chapter assesses the extent to which people’s understanding of ancestry, race, health, and diversity in the nation is being transformed by the public...

... suffering from a wide range of health conditions and unable to access treatment amid precarious infrastructures raised concerns among public authorities. By contesting, on the basis of their empirical data, the official discourse that discredited those who used this alternate path to access medicines, Biehl...

... in semiformal networks among Nigerian leprosy workers and their patients at other leprosy settlements, in exchange for data on the administration and efficacy of new doses, combinations, and compounds. This took place against the backdrop of an increasing reluctance on the part of public health officials...

.... genetics multiculturalism regional difference Emilio Yunis Colombia This chapter explores Brazil and how its diversity is represented in genomic studies. It focuses on how genetic data are drawn into debates about affirmative action in higher education and health. genetics multiculturalism...

...). This chapter assesses the extent to which people’s understanding of ancestry, race, health, and diversity in the nation is being transformed by the public presence of a genomic idiom in which to talk about these things. The conclusion is not only that people assimilate new data about genetic ancestry...

... at other leprosy settlements, in exchange for data on the administration and efficacy of new doses, combinations, and compounds. This took place against the backdrop of an increasing reluctance on the part of public health officials to contemplate the segregation of leprosy patients. This chapter explores...

... This chapter provides information on the streamlining of Singapore’s public health system as an institutional foundation for the rise of Biopolis. The rapid introduction of a bioethics committee and op-out organs law installed international best practices for stem cell research and medical...

... to the disease and patient data. By mapping this ethnic disease empire, Singapore has become an important site for clinical trials for novel therapies, potentially customizable for a wide swath of Asian patients. Singapore public health system Bioethics Advisory Committee “gene war ” major Asian...

... Commercial sex work is regulated in Dakar, and those women who are registered with the state must attend regular health checks at the state clinic. This chapter examines the history of policing, data gathering, and care practiced at the clinic and the integration of biomedical research into its...