Statistics and the Language of Global Health: Institutions and Experts in China, Taiwan, and the World, 1917–1960
This book explores how an international health statistics system was built and implemented as statistical practices developed in public health schools (Johns Hopkins University and Peking Union Medical College), intergovernmental health organizations (the League of Nations, UNRRA, and the WHO), and...
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| description | This book explores how an international health statistics system was built and implemented as statistical practices developed in public health schools (Johns Hopkins University and Peking Union Medical College), intergovernmental health organizations (the League of Nations, UNRRA, and the WHO), and philanthropic programs were transferred to the Chinese republics. Drawing on archival sources from three continents, the book follows a transnational network of experts who lay the foundation for the trust in numbers that characterizes international health governance today. International organizations opted for different strategies when standardizing their health statistics: whereas the League of Nations only included statisticians from North Atlantic countries in its standard-making, the WHO took local knowledge into account by tailoring its standards to local capacities. Individual experts also adapted their strategies for collecting and standardizing statistics to different geopolitical and administrative contexts. Interwar experts tended to simply dismiss the numbers and relied on their authority when promoting their programs, but statistics came to play a greater role in policy decisions in the postwar years. Experts both within and outside the WHO mobilized their public health knowledge to select and report statistics to support their arguments. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1399582024-07-09T05:12:54Z Statistics and the Language of Global Health: Institutions and Experts in China, Taiwan, and the World, 1917–1960 Lin, Yi-Tang global health statistics health data World Health Organization League of Nations China Taiwan epidemic intelligence international health organizations history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History This book explores how an international health statistics system was built and implemented as statistical practices developed in public health schools (Johns Hopkins University and Peking Union Medical College), intergovernmental health organizations (the League of Nations, UNRRA, and the WHO), and philanthropic programs were transferred to the Chinese republics. Drawing on archival sources from three continents, the book follows a transnational network of experts who lay the foundation for the trust in numbers that characterizes international health governance today. International organizations opted for different strategies when standardizing their health statistics: whereas the League of Nations only included statisticians from North Atlantic countries in its standard-making, the WHO took local knowledge into account by tailoring its standards to local capacities. Individual experts also adapted their strategies for collecting and standardizing statistics to different geopolitical and administrative contexts. Interwar experts tended to simply dismiss the numbers and relied on their authority when promoting their programs, but statistics came to play a greater role in policy decisions in the postwar years. Experts both within and outside the WHO mobilized their public health knowledge to select and report statistics to support their arguments. 2024-07-09T05:12:53Z 2024-07-09T05:12:53Z 2024-07-08T16:19:26Z 2022 book ONIX_20240708_9781108991339_17 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/91680 9781108991339 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/139958 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/91680/1/208336.pdf Cambridge University Press 10.1017/9781108991339 10.1017/9781108991339 12615a55-20f1-4eb5-a6c9-5eb6541f63e5 c9fff097-a6b0-4c97-afcd-d033f5f27a3d 07f61e34-5b96-49f0-9860-c87dd8228f26 9781108991339 Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) Cambridge 10BP12_208336 Open Access Books Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung Swiss National Science Foundation 10.13039/501100001711 open access |
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| title | Statistics and the Language of Global Health: Institutions and Experts in China, Taiwan, and the World, 1917–1960 |
| title_full | Statistics and the Language of Global Health: Institutions and Experts in China, Taiwan, and the World, 1917–1960 |
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| title_short | Statistics and the Language of Global Health: Institutions and Experts in China, Taiwan, and the World, 1917–1960 |
| title_sort | statistics and the language of global health institutions and experts in china taiwan and the world 1917 1960 |
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