Global Health Business: The Production and Performativity of Statistics in Sierra Leone and Germany

Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 367-384

  Erikson, Susan L ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

data performativity; global administration; global bureaucracy; global health; statistics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ETHNOLOGY; GERMANY; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL RECORD; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SIERRA LEONE; STATISTICS;

DATA COLLECTION; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS; SIERRA LEONE; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84863601253     PISSN: 01459740     EISSN: 15455882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2011.621908     Document Type: Article

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