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Metrics in global health: Situated differences in the valuation of human life

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dc.creatorMaldonado Castañeda, Oscar Javierspa
dc.creatorMoreira T.spa
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-26T00:10:07Z
dc.date.available2020-05-26T00:10:07Z
dc.date.created2019spa
dc.description.abstractThis paper explores the role of knowledge, standards, and metrics in global health. Our point of departure is the observation that the emergence of 'global health' as a domain of research, policy, and practice in the last three decades or so has coincided with an increased interest in the validation and use of measures of health, such as the Disability Adjusted Life Year (DALY), in monitoring and assessing health equity across territories and populations. This 'elective affinity' between global health and health metrics has become the focus of scholarly debate in the social sciences. In this paper, we seek to contextualise and critically discuss the different positions in this debate. We suggest that emplacing health metrics within the neo-liberal logic of health production -one where the 'mechanisms of life' are aligned with the maximisation of economic productivity- does not fully capture the interactive relationship between health measurement and the politics of health. Instead, we argue that this relationship has been characterised by controversy and uncertainty about how to interlock normative ideals and approaches to knowledge-making about health. © 2019 GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. All rights reserved.eng
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.44.2019.2.202-204
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/24209
dc.language.isoengspa
dc.publisherGESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciencesspa
dc.relation.citationEndPage224
dc.relation.citationIssueNo. 2
dc.relation.citationStartPage202
dc.relation.citationTitleHistorical Social Research
dc.relation.citationVolumeVol. 44
dc.relation.ispartofHistorical Social Research, Vol.44, No.2 (2019); pp. 202-224spa
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dc.source.instnameinstname:Universidad del Rosariospa
dc.source.reponamereponame:Repositorio Institucional EdocURspa
dc.subject.keywordDalyspa
dc.subject.keywordGlobal healthspa
dc.subject.keywordMetricsspa
dc.subject.keywordQuantificationspa
dc.subject.keywordValuationspa
dc.titleMetrics in global health: Situated differences in the valuation of human lifespa
dc.typearticleeng
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