Title: The Millennium development goals fail poor children : the case for equity-adjusted measures

Authors: Reidpath, Daniel D.

Place: [San Francisco, CA etc.

Publisher: Public library of science] (PLoS)

Year: 2009

Journal: PLoS medicine

Volume: Vol. 6, Issue 4

PAGE: --

Subject: Health and Poverty

Keywords: health policy, health indicators, child mortality, poverty

Abstract: Using the fourth MDG (reducing the under-five child mortality rate by two-thirds by the year 2015) as an illustrative example, this article highlights the potential to neglect equity in the race to achieve the set targets.

URL: http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1000062

Document type: Portal