Conclusion: Health Data’s Social Life

Alena Thiel; Samuel Aniegye  Ntewusu

doi:10.1007/978-981-97-3500-6_8

Conclusion: Health Data’s Social Life

Alena Thiel, Samuel Aniegye Ntewusu

University of Ghana

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We set out in this book to emphasise the importance of an interdisciplinary reading of knowledge practices in health—whether oral, written, or digital—and the ways in which these practices have intersected with power structures, forces of standardisation, and medical pluralism, at various moments in Ghana’s history. Centrally, we were convinced that there remains a need to address the historical gap that exists in the literature on health in Ghana and elsewhere.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Social Life of Health Data : Health Records and Knowledge Production in Ghana
Editors	Alena Thiel, Samuel Aniegye Ntewusu
Number of pages	7
Place of Publication	Singapore
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date	2024
Pages	167-174
ISBN (Print)	978-981-97-3499-3
ISBN (Electronic)	978-981-97-3500-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-3500-6_8
Publication status	Published - 2024

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