Datafication and accountability in public health: Introduction to a special issue

Social Studies of Science
Klaus HoeyerMartyn Pickersgill

Abstract

In recent years and across many nations, public health has become subject to forms of governance that are said to be aimed at establishing accountability. In this introduction to a special issue, From Person to Population and Back: Exploring Accountability in Public Health, we suggest opening up accountability assemblages by asking a series of ostensibly simple questions that inevitably yield complicated answers: What is counted? What counts? And to whom, how and why does it count? Addressing such questions involves staying attentive to the technologies and infrastructures through which data come into being and are made available for multiple political agendas. Through a discussion of public health, accountability and datafication we present three key themes that unite the various papers as well as illustrate their diversity.

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Aug 7, 2019·Social Studies of Science·Klaus HoeyerMartyn Pickersgill
Apr 22, 2021·Science and Engineering Ethics·Dagmar Rychnovská
May 26, 2021·Medical Humanities·Roslyn Malcolm
Jun 8, 2021·Frontiers in Public Health·Kristina Areskoug Josefsson, Alexandra Krettek
Jun 13, 2021·Health Expectations : an International Journal of Public Participation in Health Care and Health Policy·Teodor ZidaruRich Stockley

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