Measuring Progress Towards Millennium Development Goals by Province in Populous Countries

Measuring Progress Towards Millennium Development Goals by Province in Populous Countries

Correspondence and reprint requests should be addressed to: Dr. C. John Clements 89 Wimborne Drive Melbourne, VIC 3930 Australia Email: [email protected] While the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) represent ambitious targets for reducing poverty by 2015, measuring whether the goals have been reached is problematic, particularly for the most populous developing countries. The provinces/ states...

Measuring Progress Towards Millennium Development Goals by Province in Populous Countries

Correspondence and reprint requests should be addressed to: Dr. C. John Clements 89 Wimborne Drive Melbourne, VIC 3930 Australia Email: [email protected] While the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) represent ambitious targets for reducing poverty by 2015, measuring whether the goals have been reached is problematic, particularly for the most populous developing countries. The provinces/ states...

Measuring Progress Towards the Millennium Development Goals

• methods for strengthening routine TB surveillance; • ways to improve and standardize the analysis of surveillance data; • where surveys of infection and active disease have already been done, and should be done in future; • the comparative merits of surveys of infection and active disease (with reference to surveillance data); • how to set standards for carrying out prevalence surveys (of bot...

Progress towards the millennium development goals in SA.

Millennium Development Goals progress report.

To cite: Beattie RM, Brown NJ, Cass H. Arch Dis Child 2015;100(Suppl 1):s1. This supplement reflects on the progress made towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), with particular respect to child health. The goals, adopted by 189 countries, were set by the United Nations in 2000 and related to what could be achieved by 2015. They highlighted a set of specific targets. ...