Attuning to Global Health: Health Data Infrastructuring, Epidemiological Accountability and Digital Labor in Ghana.

IF 1.2 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-22 DOI:10.1080/01459740.2025.2535990

Alena Thiel, Lars Rune Christensen

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Abstract

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among Ghanaian officials and international developers in the field of health information systems, we investigate how innovations in health data infrastructures are aligned with global practices of epidemiological accountability. The digital health information system DHIS2 has been adopted in various low- and middle-income countries, including Ghana. While global stakeholders render public health a matter of efficiency and accountability, public health professionals attune at various levels to emerging global health priorities and data practices, e.g. the translation of standard case definitions and quantitative measures into local contexts, or innovations in reporting channels of key public health indicators.

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适应全球健康：加纳的卫生数据基础设施、流行病学问责制和数字劳动。

利用加纳官员和国际卫生信息系统开发人员的人种学实地调查，我们调查了卫生数据基础设施的创新如何与流行病学问责制的全球实践保持一致。数字卫生信息系统DHIS2已在包括加纳在内的许多低收入和中等收入国家采用。虽然全球利益攸关方将公共卫生视为一个效率和问责制问题，但公共卫生专业人员在各级适应新出现的全球卫生优先事项和数据做法，例如，将标准病例定义和定量措施转化为当地情况，或创新关键公共卫生指标的报告渠道。

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Medical Anthropology Multiple-

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4.10

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4.30%

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