Don't Look Down: The Limits of Meroscopic Measurement

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The essay examines some problems and opportunities of outcomes measures from a philosophical, political, and human rights perspective. Two suggestions for further effort are included: establish a person-centered outcomes research entity to help make outcomes measures more useful in decision-making and use a human rights framework to understand the impact toward which projects and programs aim.

Keywords

• outcomes research
• human rights
• medical model
• social model
• intersectionality