Generating Political Priority for Maternal Mortality Reduction in 5 Developing Countries
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Generating political priority for maternal mortality reduction in 5 developing countries.
I conducted case studies on the level of political priority given to maternal mortality reduction in 5 countries: Guatemala, Honduras, India, Indonesia, and Nigeria. Among the factors that shaped political priority were international agency efforts to establish a global norm about the unacceptability of maternal death; those agencies' provision of financial and technical resources; the degree o...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Public Health
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0090-0036,1541-0048
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2006.095455