Millennium Development Goals and Health
Another Selective Development
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9975497 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kesavan Rajasekharan Nayar (0000-0003-4203-1959, Jawaharlal Nehru University, corresponding author), Oliver Razum (0000-0002-1244-7649, The authors are Professors, Centre for Social Medicine and Community Health, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and University of Bielefeld, Germany, respectively.) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 317-322 |
| Publication date | 2006-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-8817 • E-ISSN: 0973-0702 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/002088170604300305 |
| OpenAlex | W1987994275 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 1 |
The MDGs has been carved out of the UN Millennium Declaration adopted in the fifty-fifth session of the UN General Assembly in September, 2000. Significantly, the MDGs has a bias towards health, education and empowerment. This could be construed as a positive move in international policy as far as the development agenda is concerned. But a closer look at the strategies show that there are several roadblocks towards achieving these goals. The major constraint is the lack of reliable data in developing countries for planning public health programmes. This results in an element of uncertainty and leads to unrealistically high targets which could distort the already fragile health systems in several countries. The selective approach could also spiral intensive drives which might further erode the primary health care system as has happened with the attempt to eradicate polio. The alternative, therefore, is to evolve longer-term, broader, system-based interventions to address the health concerns in the MDGs
Declaration · Developing country · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Empowerment · Global health · Health care · Health promotion · Millennium Development Goals · Political science · Psychological intervention · Public health · Global Health and Surgery · HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses · Human Rights and Development · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Health Policy
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |