Achieving the MDGs: Health systems as core social institutions

Lynn Freedman argues that strategies for meeting the MDGs should be premised on an understanding of health systems as core social institutions that help define the very experience of poverty and citizenship. MDG 5 on maternal mortality provides a strategic entry point for addressing health systems.

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Published in:Development (Society for International Development) 2005-03, Vol.48 (1), p.19-24
Main Author: Freedman, Lynn P
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Citizenship
Developing countries
Health care
Health policy
Human rights
International aspects
International cooperation
Mortality
Poverty
Power
Public health
Qualitative research
Social justice
Society
United Nations Development Program
Values
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Summary:Lynn Freedman argues that strategies for meeting the MDGs should be premised on an understanding of health systems as core social institutions that help define the very experience of poverty and citizenship. MDG 5 on maternal mortality provides a strategic entry point for addressing health systems.
ISSN:1011-6370
1461-7072
DOI:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100107