Moralizing metrics: Discourses of data and equity in California's public health response to COVID-19
Big Data & Society, Volume 13, Issue 3, July-September 2026. The COVID-19 pandemic witnessed the transformation of data from a public health resource into a measure of morality. Disadvantage indices such as the Healthy Places Index and other metrics became central to promoting equity in the pandemic response, ...
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Published: 28 July 2026
Source: Big Data & Society
Category: Research
Topics: Bias & fairness · Healthcare
Retrieved: 29 July 2026
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