... This chapter describes the contemporary search for a universal metric in global health as an answer to the problem of accountability in the past sixty or so years of international health development. Randomized controlled trials are seen as the gold standard for doing global health work...

... This chapter examines the explanatory functions and lapses of the maternal mortality ratio, the most commonly used maternal health indicator. Unlike people, metrics can be tracked, graphed, compared across time and space, converted to dollars, inserted into equations, and statistically...

...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...

... This chapter explores how the legitimacy conferred by health metrics enters into the efforts of Yup’ik residents of southwestern Alaska to secure sovereign rights and recognitions. By making funding for Yup’ik behavioral health programs contingent on the production of health metrics, the post...

...Metrics Economics There is a new purpose to numbers in global health: numbers are needed not just for retrospective accounting but also to calculate prospective actuarial worth. This shift in the purpose of metrics is a shift of “value,” arising at a historical moment when using “metrics...

... There is a new purpose to numbers in global health: numbers are needed not just for retrospective accounting but also to calculate prospective actuarial worth. This shift in the purpose of metrics is a shift of “value,” arising at a historical moment when using “metrics as anticipatory praxis...

...Storied Metrics Reliance on the unembellished metrics and austere research design of the randomized controlled trial has far-reaching implications not only for health but for entire health care infrastructures. Drawing from research in the largest integrated health care system in the United...

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... The history of metrics in global health takes us immediately to historic forms of counting that began in the colonial period and persisted into the postwar, postcolonial era. How some things changed in the postwar period and how they have shifted again under more recent inventions of the field...

...Getting Good Numbers This chapter examines the explanatory functions and lapses of the maternal mortality ratio, the most commonly used maternal health indicator. Unlike people, metrics can be tracked, graphed, compared across time and space, converted to dollars, inserted into equations...

... 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...