Generating political priority for newborn survival in three low-income countries

Global Public Health

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 538-554

  Smith, Stephanie L ^a   Shiffman, Jeremy ^b   Kazembe, Abigail ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

Author keywords

Bolivia; health policy; Malawi; neonatal mortality; Nepal

Indexed keywords

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BOLIVIA; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD HEALTH; CIVIL DISORDER; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; LOW INCOME COUNTRY; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALAWI; MATERNAL WELFARE; MOTHER; NEGLECT; NEPAL; NEWBORN CARE; NEWBORN MORTALITY; OBSTETRIC PROCEDURE; POLITICS; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RURAL HEALTH CARE; STUNTING; SURVIVAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; NEWBORN; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

BOLIVIA; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALAWI; NEPAL; POLITICS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 84901689653     PISSN: 17441692     EISSN: 17441706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2014.904918     Document Type: Article

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