Generating Political Priority for Maternal Mortality Reduction in 5 Developing Countries

• Autores: Jeremy Shiffman
• Localización: American journal of public health, ISSN 0090-0036, Vol. 97, Nº. 5, 2007, págs. 796-803
• Idioma: inglés
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  • I conducted case studies on the level of political priority given to maternal mortality reduction in 5 countries: Guatemala, Honduras, India, Indonesia, and Nigeria.Among the factors that shaped political priority were international agency efforts to establish a global norm about the unacceptability of maternal death; those agencies? provision of financial and technical resources; the degree of cohesion among national safe motherhood policy communities; the presence of national political champions to promote the cause; the deployment of credible evidence to show policymakers a problem existed; the generation of clear policy alternatives to demonstrate the problem was surmountable; and the organization of attention-generating events to create national visibility for the issue.The experiences of these 5 countries offer guidance on how political priority can be generated for other health causes in developing countries.