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Statistics and the Language of Global Health: Global Health Histories

Autor Yi-Tang Lin
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 mai 2025
Yi-Tang Lin presents the historical process by which statistics became the language of global health. Using the case study of China and Taiwan in the period 1917-1960, Yi-Tang Lin examines the efforts by universities, foundations and health organizations to turn numbers into an international language for public health policy.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781108994057
ISBN-10: 1108994059
Pagini: 276
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Seria Global Health Histories


Cuprins

Introduction; 1. The call for a language of public health: Philanthropic foundations, bacteriologists, and health administrators; 2. The language and dialect of health science: Public health schools and their statistical practices; 3. The language of health administrations: The League of Nations Epidemiological Intelligence Service; 4. The language of policy-making: Research and advocacy through health demonstrations; 5. Popularization at a global scale: The WHO and the postwar health statistics reporting system; 6. The art of rhetoric: Statistical standards at work, from fieldwork to world policy-making; 7. Another way of speaking? Public health statistics in the People's Republic of China; Conclusion: Numbers, experts, and policy-making.

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'Yi-Tang Lin tells a most fascinating story on how crucial the networks of the experts of public health statistics were in China's close relationship with the predecessors of WHO, and how the lives and expertise of these Chinese statisticians were played out in the ROC and the PRC in the early WHO days during the Cold War.' Tomoko Akami, The Australian National University
'Thanks to Lin we know about how a new vocabulary, intertwining numerical data, indexes and political values, promoted by scholars, health workers and policy makers became essential for the validation of Global Health during the 20th century. A remarkable contribution to Global Health studies in China and beyond, past and present.' Marcos Cueto, Fiocruz
'Today, statistics and the language of numbers dominates global health thinking and practice. Yi-Tang Lin's ground-breaking study provides a much-needed history of how this came to be. Wide ranging, well researched and clearly written, Lin's book traces the emergence of statistics in global health over the course of the 20th century.' Randall Packard, John Hopkins University

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