The Importance of Politics: Who Has Power over the Data and the Decisions?
Eme Owoaje, MBBS, MPhil, FWACP
College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
At the end of this lecture, you are asked to reflect on the same questions that were posed at the beginning of this section on Challenges and Strategies in Data Use:
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The importance of incentives: How good is the data?
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The promise and limits of technology: How and when can technology improve data?
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The importance of politics: Who has power over the data and the decisions?
Review your response to these questions in Introduction to Challenges and Strategies in Data Use. Now that you have completed the lecture, what have you discovered? Did any of your responses align with those you learned in the lecture? Was there any answers to these questions that surprised you to learn about?
Please share your thoughts in the discussion.
Collecting and Using Data for Disease Control and Global Health Decision-Making
Collecting and Using Data for Disease Control and Global Health Decision-Making
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