The Millennium Development Goals for Health : Rising to the Challenges

Wagstaff, Adam ; Claeson, Mariam

Washington, DC:World Bank

关键词: CHILD HEALTH;    CHILD MORTALITY;    CHILD SURVIVAL;    COMMUNICABLE DISEASES;    DEATHS;   

DOI  :  10.1596/0-8213-5767-0
RP-ID  :  29673

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

The extent of premature death and illhealth in the developing world is staggering. In 2000 almost11 million children died before their fifth birthday, anestimated 140 million children under five are underweight, 3million died from HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis claimed another 2million lives, and 515,000 women died during pregnancy orchild birth in 1995, almost all of them in the developingworld. Death and ill health on such a scale are matters ofconcern in their own right. They are also a brake oneconomic development. These concerns led the internationalcommunity to put health at the center of the MillenniumDevelopment Goals when adopting them at the MillenniumSummit in September 2000. This report focuses on the healthand nutrition Millennium Development Goals agreed to by over180 governments. It assesses progress to date and prospectsof achieving the goals. The report identifies whatdeveloping country governments can do to accelerate the paceof progress while ensuring that benefits accrue to thepoorest and most disadvantaged households. It also pullstogether the lessons of development assistance and countryinitiatives and innovations to improve the effectiveness ofaid, based on a number of country case studies. Ithighlights some of the principles of effective developmentassistance: country driven coordination; strategic coherenceexpressed in comprehensive poverty reduction strategies,which fully address the issues of health, nutrition, andpopulation; financial coherence embodied in medium termexpenditure framework; pooling of donor funds; and a commonframework for reporting and assessing progress.