Collapsing the vertical-horizontal divide: An ethnographic study of evidence-based policymaking in maternal health

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 644-649

  Béhague, Dominique P ^a   Storeng, Katerini T ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNOGRAPHY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MATERNAL WELFARE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PREGNANCY; PUBLIC HEALTH; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MATERNAL WELFARE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PREGNANCY; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 41949111453     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2007.123117     Document Type: Article

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