Antenatal syphilis control: People, programmes, policies and politics

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 417-423

  Hawkes, Sarah ^a   Miller, Suellen ^b   Reichenbach, Laura ^c   Nayyar, Anjali ^d   Buse, Kent ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HARVARD CENTER FOR POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United States)

^d INTERNATIONAL AIDS VACCINE INITIATIVE   (United States)

Author keywords

Data collection methods; Decision making, Organizational; Focus groups utlization; Health policy; Mass screening utlization; Pregnancy complications, Infectious diagnosis epidemiology; Prenatal diagnosis; Syphilis diagnosis epidemiology economics

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH POLICY; PREGNANCY; SYPHILIS;

CONGENITAL SYPHILIS; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; POLITICS; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL PERIOD; REVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS;

DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MASS SCREENING; POLICY MAKING; POLITICS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PRENATAL CARE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SYPHILIS, CONGENITAL;

EID: 3042530047     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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