Income-based variation in Sustainable Development Goal interaction networks

Monitoring Sustainable Development Goal 3: how ready are the health information systems in low-income and middle-income countries?

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) present a broader scope and take a holistic multisectoral approach to development as opposed to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). While keeping the health MDG agenda, SDG3 embraces the growing challenge of non-communicable diseases and their risk factors. The broader scope of the SDG agenda, the need for a multisectoral approach and the emphasis on eq...

Nutrition: a quintessential sustainable development goal.

In the fi nal paper of our 2008 Lancet Series on maternal and child undernutrition, Saul Morris and colleagues wrote that, “The international nutrition system—made up of international and donor organisations, academia, civil society, and the private sector—is fragmented and dysfunctional”. They concluded that, incredibly, no evidence base existed to prioritise actions to improve nutrition. And ...

Grand convergence: a future sustainable development goal?

Monitoring Sustainable Development Goals 3: Assessing the Readiness of Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Background The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) availed opportunities for scaling up service coverage but called for stringent monitoring and evaluation (M&E;) focusing mainly on MDG related programs. The Sustainable Development Goals 3 (SDGs) and the universal health coverage (UHC) agenda present a broader scope and require more ...

Variation in rural economy as a means of achievement of sustainable development Case: northern Marhamat Abad in Miandoab

The more varied the system is, the more dynamic and sustainable would by both in time and space. This in turn, would maintain both internal and external tensions. Variation regarding rural economy is being considered as one of the approaches for achievement of sustainable rural development. The major objective of this study is to investigate the relationship between variation in rural economy a...