Setting the global health agenda: The influence of advocates and ideas on political priority for maternal and newborn survival

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 166, Issue , 2016, Pages 86-93

  Smith, Stephanie L ^a   Shiffman, Jeremy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Framing; Global health; Maternal; Networks; Newborn; Policy agenda; Political priority

Indexed keywords

HEALTH POLICY; INFANT MORTALITY; MATERNAL HEALTH; MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL; MORBIDITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SURVIVAL;

ATTENTION; CHILD; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DRAWING; EXPECTATION; HUMAN; INTRAPARTUM CARE; MORBIDITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL JUSTICE; WOMEN'S RIGHTS; FEMALE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PATIENT ADVOCACY; POLITICS; PREGNANCY; TRENDS;

FEMALE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PATIENT ADVOCACY; POLITICS; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84982181915     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.08.013     Document Type: Article

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