Editorial<BR><BR>Millennium development goal 5: situation analysis

Situation Analysis of Millennium Development Goals 4 & 5 : Pakistan’s Perspective

Millennium Development Goals [MDG] are being pursued since the year 2001, to scale up the critical health and development indicators for the world population. In this article we aimed to describe and explain the status of maternal and child health in Pakistan, in the light of MDGs 4 & 5 with their corresponding targets and indicators. Secondary data has been used to analyze the achievements or ...

Situation Analysis: Key Development

Millennium Development Goal 5 and adolescents: looking back, moving forward

Since the Millennium Declaration in 2000, unprecedented progress has been made in the reduction of global maternal mortality. Millennium Development Goal 5 (MDG 5; improving maternal health) includes two primary targets, 5A and 5B. Target 5A aimed for a 75% reduction in the global maternal mortality ratio (MMR), and 5B aimed to achieve universal access to reproductive health. Globally, maternal...

Achieving Millennium Development Goal 5: is India serious?

a Center for Management of Health System, Indian Institute of Management, Vastrapur, Ahmedabad 380015, India. b Academy for Nursing Studies, Hyderabad, India. Correspondence to Kranti Vora (e-mail: [email protected]). doi:10.2471/BLT.07.048454 India has the largest number of births per year (27 million) in the world.1 With its high maternal mortality of about 300–500 per 100 000 births...

Situation, activity and goal awareness in ubiquitous computing

Purpose – this paper aims to provide a view on Situation, Activity and Goal awareness (SAGAware) in ubiquitous computing. It discusses these concepts, articulates their roles in scalability and prevalence of pervasive applications, and speculates the future development. Design/methodology/approach – the paper is a visionary essay that introduces the background, elaborates the basic concepts and...