DCPP - 9. Millennium Development Goals for Health: What Will It Take to Accelerate Progress?

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Millennium Development Goals for Health: What Will It Take to Accelerate Progress?</h1> </div> <div class="leftcol"> <div class="leftblock twocol"> <div class="left_col"> <div class="left_col_block color" id="customBookBox"> <h3>CUSTOM BOOKS</h3> <div class="contentblock"> <p>Select, organize, download, and save your choice of chapters into a single PDF file for printing and distribution. 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Hecht, Pablo Gottret, and Qiu Fang<br/> Pages: 14<br/> </p> <div class="normal"> <ul> <li><a href="#outlineanchor" id="goto_outline">Sections</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091207083852/http://files.dcp2.org/pdf/DCP/DCP09.pdf" target="_blank"> Download PDF Version</a> </li> <li><a href="javascript:popup_window();" id="howtocite"> How To Cite</a></li> </ul> <p> <strong>Region</strong> <br/> <span id="regions"> <a href="/web/20091207083852/http://www.dcp2.org/regions/1/east-asia-and-pacific" id="country_1"> East Asia and Pacific </a> <br/> <a href="/web/20091207083852/http://www.dcp2.org/regions/51/latin-america-and-the-caribbean" id="country_51"> Latin America and the Caribbean </a> <br/> <a href="/web/20091207083852/http://www.dcp2.org/regions/157/south-asia" id="country_157"> South Asia </a> <br/> <a href="/web/20091207083852/http://www.dcp2.org/regions/166/subsaharan-africa" id="country_166"> Sub-Saharan Africa </a> <br/> </span> </p> <p> <strong>Disease / Condition</strong> <br/> <span id="diseases"> <a href="/web/20091207083852/http://www.dcp2.org/diseases/2" id="disease_2"> Adolescent & Childhood Diseases</a> <br/> <a href="/web/20091207083852/http://www.dcp2.org/diseases/18" id="disease_18"> Diarrheal Disease</a> <br/> <a href="/web/20091207083852/http://www.dcp2.org/diseases/25" id="disease_25"> Helminth Infections</a> <br/> <a href="/web/20091207083852/http://www.dcp2.org/diseases/28" id="disease_28"> HIV/AIDS</a> <br/> <a href="/web/20091207083852/http://www.dcp2.org/diseases/31" id="disease_31"> Infectious Diseases</a> <br/> <a href="/web/20091207083852/http://www.dcp2.org/diseases/37" id="disease_37"> Learning & Developmental Disabilities</a> <br/> <a href="/web/20091207083852/http://www.dcp2.org/diseases/42" id="disease_42"> Malaria</a> <br/> <a href="/web/20091207083852/http://www.dcp2.org/diseases/44" id="disease_44"> Maternal Conditions</a> <br/> <a href="/web/20091207083852/http://www.dcp2.org/diseases/47" id="disease_47"> Neonatal Conditions</a> <br/> <a href="/web/20091207083852/http://www.dcp2.org/diseases/50" id="disease_50"> Nutrition</a> <br/> <a href="/web/20091207083852/http://www.dcp2.org/diseases/55" id="disease_55"> Respiratory Diseases</a> <br/> <a href="/web/20091207083852/http://www.dcp2.org/diseases/66" id="disease_66"> Tropical Diseases</a> <br/> <a href="/web/20091207083852/http://www.dcp2.org/diseases/67" id="disease_67"> Tuberculosis</a> <br/> <a href="/web/20091207083852/http://www.dcp2.org/diseases/69" id="disease_69"> Vaccine-Preventable Diseases</a> <br/> <a href="/web/20091207083852/http://www.dcp2.org/diseases/71" id="disease_71"> Women's Health</a> <br/> </span> </p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="right_col"> <div class="contentblock"> <h2> Abstract </h2> <div id="chapter_image" style="float:left;margin-right:1em;margin-bottom:.3em;"> <img src="/web/20091207083852im_/http://www.dcp2.org/image/114/DCP_ch9.jpg" alt="Richard Lord, www.rlordphoto.com" title="Richard Lord, www.rlordphoto.com"/> </div> <p> In response to the burden of mortality and suffering concentrated in the world's poorest countries, the United Nations endorsed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to focus resources on addressing critical health issues, including eradicating extreme poverty and hunger; reducing child mortality; improving maternal health; and combating HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases. Halfway through the interval for achieving MDGs, the score is mixed; for example, the poorest 20 percent of the population within countries have seen improvements in nutrition, but child mortality has been failing more slowly among the poor than among the better–off. <p><p>Whether countries can scale up health interventions by 2015 depends in part on sound governmental policies and expanded funding. Countries can improve the effectiveness of health care interventions by focusing on the regions furthest behind, reallocating spending across all levels of care toward more cost–effective interventions, targeting specific populations, lowering financial barriers, providing information about good health practices, improving transportation and sanitation systems, providing access to adequate water supplies, and making provider organizations accountable to the public.<p><p>While governments in developing countries generally recognize that public health functions such as regulations and infrastructure are important, they often lack the capacity and financial resources to implement them. By employing public health professionals with core health competencies, governments can not only develop and implement standards, they can also monitor the health of communities and promote health education and prevention. Development agencies can help countries accelerate progress toward health goals by providing financial assistance until governments mobilize more domestic resources for health care. </p> </div> </div> <a name="outlineanchor"></a> <div class="right_col"> <div class="contentblock normal"> <h2> Sections </h2> <p>Click on the links below to read the full text.</p> <ul id="outline"> <li><a href="/web/20091207083852/http://www.dcp2.org/pubs/DCP/9/Section/934" id="link_chapter_section_35314"> Intro </a> </li> <li><a href="/web/20091207083852/http://www.dcp2.org/pubs/DCP/9/Section/940" id="link_chapter_section_34670"> The Millennium Development Goals for Health: Progress and Prospects </a> </li> <li><a href="/web/20091207083852/http://www.dcp2.org/pubs/DCP/9/Section/952" id="link_chapter_section_34671"> Scaling Up: Defining Interventions and Removing Constraints </a> </li> <li><a href="/web/20091207083852/http://www.dcp2.org/pubs/DCP/9/Section/957" id="link_chapter_section_34672"> What Do Countries Need To Do? </a> </li> <li><a href="/web/20091207083852/http://www.dcp2.org/pubs/DCP/9/Section/982" id="link_chapter_section_34673"> Costing and Financing Additional Spending for the MDGs </a> </li> <li><a href="/web/20091207083852/http://www.dcp2.org/pubs/DCP/9/Section/1000" id="link_chapter_section_34674"> References </a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="rightcol"> <div class="rightblock detail"> <div class="contentblock normal"> <div id="chapterparts"> <h3> Boxes </h3> <ul id="boxes" class="normal"> <li> 9.1 <a href="/web/20091207083852/http://www.dcp2.org/pubs/DCP/9/Box/9.1" id="link_chapterPart_117738"> The Health-related Millennium Development Goals </a> </li><li> 9.2 <a href="/web/20091207083852/http://www.dcp2.org/pubs/DCP/9/Box/9.2" id="link_chapterPart_117856"> Estimating the Cost of Scaling Up to Achieve the MDGs </a> </li> </ul> <h3> Tables </h3> <ul id="tables" class="normal"> <li> 9.1 <a href="/web/20091207083852/http://www.dcp2.org/pubs/DCP/9/Table/9.1" id="link_chapterPart_117414"> Effective Interventions to Reduce Illness, Deaths, and Malnutrition </a> </li><li> 9.2 <a href="/web/20091207083852/http://www.dcp2.org/pubs/DCP/9/Table/9.2" id="link_chapterPart_117787"> Alternative Cost Estimates Using Millennium Project and Marginal Budgeting for Bottlenecks Models </a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="clear"> </div> </div> <div class="copyright"> <div class="content"> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20091207083852/http://www.dcp2.org/page/main/About.html" id="nav_about-dcpp">About</a>  | </li> <li><a href="/web/20091207083852/http://www.dcp2.org/page/main/ContactUs.html" id="nav_contactus">Contact Us</a>  | </li> <li><a href="/web/20091207083852/http://www.dcp2.org/page/main/Sitemap.html" id="nav_sitemap">Site Map</a>  | </li> <li><a href="/web/20091207083852/http://www.dcp2.org/page/main/Privacy.html" id="nav_privacy">Privacy Policy</a>  | </li> <li><a href="/web/20091207083852/http://www.dcp2.org/page/main/Terms.html" id="nav_terms">Terms Of Use</a>  | </li> <li><a href="/web/20091207083852/http://www.dcp2.org/page/main/Feedback.html" id="nav_feedback">Feedback</a></li> </ul> <span class="rights"> © 2006 The World Bank Group, All Rights Reserved. </span> </div> </div> <div class="footer"> <div class="logos"><img src="/web/20091207083852im_/http://www.dcp2.org/images/logos_bottom.jpg" usemap="#logosMap" alt=""/></div> <map name="logosMap" id="logosMap"> <area shape="rect" target="_blank" coords="10,12,91,65" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091207083852/http://www.worldbank.org/" alt="The World Bank" title="The World Bank"/> <area shape="rect" target="_blank" coords="102,12,220,65" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091207083852/http://www.who.int/en" alt="World Health Organization" title="World Health Organization"/> <area shape="rect" target="_blank" coords="228,12,361,65" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091207083852/http://www.fic.nih.gov/" alt="John E. 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