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SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH UNIT SEMINAR
22nd September 2004
12.30-13.30 in the 18 Woburn Square seminar room.
Title: 'Failing to improve maternal health services in South Africa: reflections from a maternity ward level on challenges for policy implementation' presented by Loveday Penn-Kekana.
This seminar arises out of ethnographic work carried out in two maternity wards in South Africa which looked at health system and other factors that shaped nurses every day practice in the labour ward.
Loveday Penn-Kekana is a researcher at the Centre for Health Policy at the Medical School at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. She is also a collaborator in the Health System's Development Programme funded by DFID and co-ordinated by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
The seminar is open to all. Please RSVP to Frances: <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Founded in 1990, the Social Science Research Unit (SSRU) is based at the Institute of Education, University of London. Our mission is to engage in and otherwise promote rigorous, ethical and participative social research as well as to support evidence-informed public policy and practice across a range of domains including education, health and welfare, guided by a concern for human rights, social justice and the development of human potential.
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