At a global summit held in the year 2000, world leaders committed themselves to strive for the attainment by 2015 of a set of 8 far-reaching developmental mileposts known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Unlike previous global agreements (for example, the Alma Ata 'Health for All by the Year 2000' declaration), the MDGs were specifically tied to numerical benchmarks consisting of 21 ...

In November 1986, 212 participants from 38 countries convened in Ottawa, Canada, at the first International Conference on Health Promotion organized by the World Health Organization (WHO), Health and Welfare Canada, and the Canadian Public Health Association. Although not representative of the entire globe, these participants adopted the Ottawa Charter on health promotion as “the process of ena...

We should like to call the attention of our readers to the World Report on Women's Health 2006, edited by Guest Editors Dorothy Shaw and Louis G. Keith, which was published as the September issue of the International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics (Int J Gynecol Obstet 2006; 94:207–394). The importance of this publication was highlighted in remarks made by Dr. Shaw, President of the Inter...

As the timeframe for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) came to an end in 2015, the United Nations lauded great progress, calling its MDG campaign the “most successful anti-poverty movement in history” (1). In its final progress report, the United Nations states that poverty has decreased by half and hunger has fallen dramatically (1). Sixty countries are said to have achieved th...

In a previous article, we outlined the efforts of the Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) lobby to overcome the diseases' snub in the 2000 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and to campaign for inclusion in the post-2015 development agenda [1]. In doing so, we noted the extraordinary achievements made by the lobby despite its view from outside of the MDG juggernaut, which singled out just three ...

K. R. Nayar  Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. E-mail: [email protected] There are several instances where specific targeted programs and goals have wreaked havoc with the health services system in several countries. After the family planning program and the small-pox eradication drive, the recent case of such diversion happened due to the p...

BACKGROUND The achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) depends on sufficient supply of health workforce in each country. Although country-level data support this contention, it has been difficult to evaluate health workforce supply and MDG outcomes at the country level. The purpose of the study was to examine the association between the health workforce, particularly the nursing ...

In this international year of basic sciences for sustainable development and the edition special issue challenges in journal TJES. It is interest to review how index has evolved according global fulfillment goals (SDGs) world (2000-2022). was found that since Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) subsequently Sustainable were proposed, greatest increase reported periods prior Covid-19 pandemic. A...