"Playing the Numbers Game": Evidence-based Advocacy and the Technocratic Narrowing of the Safe Motherhood Initiative

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 260-279

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Advocacy coalitions; Audit culture; Evidence based policy; Global health; Maternal health

Indexed keywords

ADVOCACY COALITIONS; ARTICLE; AUDIT CULTURE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EVIDENCE-BASED POLICY; FEMALE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MATERNAL WELFARE; PATIENT ADVOCACY; POVERTY; PREGNANCY;

ADVOCACY COALITIONS; AUDIT CULTURE; EVIDENCE-BASED POLICY; GLOBAL HEALTH; MATERNAL HEALTH;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MATERNAL WELFARE; PATIENT ADVOCACY; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84901828365     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: 15481387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/maq.12072     Document Type: Article

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