Success factors for reducing maternal and child mortality.

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Published in Bull World Health Organ on June 05, 2014

Authors

Shyama Kuruvilla1, Julian Schweitzer2, David Bishai3, Sadia Chowdhury4, Daniele Caramani5, Laura Frost6, Rafael Cortez7, Bernadette Daelmans8, Andres de Francisco1, Taghreed Adam9, Robert Cohen3, Y Natalia Alfonso3, Jennifer Franz-Vasdeki10, Seemeen Saadat7, Beth Anne Pratt6, Beatrice Eugster5, Sarah Bandali11, Pritha Venkatachalam12, Rachael Hinton1, John Murray13, Sharon Arscott-Mills14, Henrik Axelson15, Blerta Maliqi8, Intissar Sarker7, Rama Lakshminarayanan1, Troy Jacobs16, Susan Jack, Susan Jacks17, Elizabeth Mason8, Abdul Ghaffar9, Nicholas Mays18, Carole Presern1, Flavia Bustreo8, Success Factors for Women’s and Children’s Health study groups

Author Affiliations

1: Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health, World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland .
2: Results for Development Institute, Washington, United States of America (USA).
3: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA .
4: BRAC Institute of Global Health, Dhaka, Bangladesh .
5: University of St Gallen, St Gallen, Switzerland .
6: Global Health Insights, New York, USA .
7: World Bank, Washington, USA .
8: World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland .
9: Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, Geneva, Switzerland .
10: Independent Consultant, Seattle, USA .
11: Options Consultancy, London, England .
12: Cambridge Economic Policy Associates, Delhi, India .
13: Independent Consultant, Iowa City, USA .
14: ICF International, Fairfax, USA .
15: World Health Organization, Phnom Penh, Cambodia .
16: USAID, Washington, USA .
17: University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand .
18: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, England .

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