Reproductive Health Matters
Volume 15, Issue 30 , Pages 28-37 , November 2007

Improving Maternal Health: Getting What Works To Happen

  • Loveday Penn-Kekana

      Affiliations

    • Researcher, Centre for Health Policy, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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  • Barbara McPake

      Affiliations

    • Director, Institute for International Health and Development, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK
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  • Justin Parkhurst

      Affiliations

    • Lecturer in Health Policy, Health Policy Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK

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Reproductive Health Matters
Volume 15, Issue 30 , Pages 28-37 , November 2007