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November 2008, Vol 98, No. 11 | American Journal of Public Health 1930
© 2008 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2008.144709

LETTERS

POLICYMAKING TO IMPROVE MATERNAL HEALTH

John Yeh, MD and Neal Brandes, MS

John Yeh is with the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, and the US Agency for International Development, Washington, DC. Neal Brandes is with the US Agency for International Development, Washington, DC.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to John Yeh, MD, University at Buffalo, 219 Bryant St, Buffalo, NY 14222 (e-mail: jyeh@buffalo.edu).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

We read with interest the article by Béhague and Storeng titled "Collapsing the Vertical–Horizontal Divide: An Ethnographic Study of Evidence-Based Policymaking in Maternal Health."1 The authors should be applauded for their efforts to analyze the complicated and competing factors that have limited advances in policy and programs that improve the health and survival of women in developing countries.

The authors address a number of important points in their article. Here, we would like to comment on three: (1) the methods used, (2) how policymakers choose the evidence that determines how programs are designed, and (3) the use of randomized controlled . . . [Full Text]






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