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font-weight:bold'>Political Priority for Public Health Causes in Developing
Countries:<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#993300;
font-weight:bold'>Implications From a Study on Maternal Mortality <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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font-weight:bold'>Jeremy Shiffman - Center for Global Development. June 2007<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333399'>“…..
Why do some serious health issues--such as HIV/AIDS--get considerable attention
and others--such as malaria and collapsing health systems--very little? Why and
under what conditions do political leaders consider an issue worthy of
sustained attention, and back up that attention with money and other resources?
In this CGD Brief, visiting fellow Jeremy Shiffman discusses nine factors that
influenced the degree to which national leaders in five countries made one
public health issue--maternal mortality--a political priority. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333399'>Pregnancy-related
complications are the leading cause of mortality globally among adult women of
reproductive age, with more than half a million deaths annually. But in some
countries maternal health has become a priority and maternal deaths have
fallen, while in other countries this has not yet occurred. Drawing on his
comparison of these countries, Shiffman offers recommendations for public
health priority-setting in developing countries.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#333399'>His
bottom line: attaining public health goals is as much a political as it is a medical
or technical challenge; success requires not only appropriate technical
interventions but also effective political strategies</span></font>……”<o:p></o:p></p>
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