Attuning to Global Health

Health Data Infrastructuring, Epidemiological Accountability and Digital Labor in Ghana

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ID4564498
AuthorsAlena Thiel (0000-0002-1092-1140, University of Copenhagen, corresponding author), Lars Rune Christensen (0000-0001-7204-465X, IT University of Copenhagen)
Year2025
Volume44
Issue6
Pages547-559
Publication date2025-08-18
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMedical Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0145-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-5882
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01459740.2025.2535990
PMID40842314
OpenAlexW4413440719
LanguageEN
References cited22

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

Accountability · Business · Digital health · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Global health · Health care · Political science · Public health · Public relations · Data-Driven Disease Surveillance · Health Informatics · ICT in Developing Communities · Medicine · Nursing · Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research · Health Policy

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