Countdown to 2015 country case studies: What have we learned about processes and progress towards MDGs 4 and 5?

BMC Public Health

Volumn 16, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Moucheraud, Corrina ^a   Owen, Helen ^b   Singh, Neha S ^b   Ng, Courtney Kuonin ^c   Requejo, Jennifer ^d   Lawn, Joy E ^b   Berman, Peter ^c   Salehi, Ahmed ^e   Hong, Zhou ^e   Ronsmans, Carine ^e   Yanqiu, Gao ^e   Kebede, Hillena ^e   Mann, Carlyn ^e   Ruducha, Jenny ^e   Tadesse, Mekonnen ^e   Ngugi, Anthony ^e   Keats, Emily ^e   Macharia, William ^e   Ravishankar, Nirmala ^e   Tole, John ^e   Bryce, Jennifer ^e   Colbourn, Tim ^e   Daelmans, Bernadette ^e   Kanyuka, Mercy ^e   Nsona, Humphreys ^e   Askeer, Nadia ^e   Bhutta, Zulfiqar ^e   Bhatti, Zaid ^e   Rizvi, Arjumand ^e   De Guzman, Jessica Niño ^e   Huicho, Luis ^e   Victora, Cesar ^e   Afnan Holmes, Hoviyeh ^e   John, Theopista ^e   Magoma, Moke ^e   Msemo, Georgina ^e   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Accountability; Child health; Coverage; Equity; Health finance; Health systems; Maternal health; Millennium Development Goals; Neonatal health; Reproductive health

Indexed keywords

AFGHANISTAN; ATTENTION; BANGLADESH; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CHINA; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; FINANCE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNIZATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSECTICIDE TREATED NET; INTRAPARTUM CARE; INVESTMENT; KENYA; MALAWI; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MATERNAL WELFARE; MONITORING; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NIGER; PAKISTAN; PERU; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TANZANIA; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; MORTALITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; VACCINATION;

CHILD; CHILD MORTALITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MORTALITY; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; VACCINATION;

EID: 84986893139     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-016-3401-6     Document Type: Article

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