Millennium Health Goals

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the outcomes that are used to measure progress towards meeting the Millennium health goals. This presentation would ultimately provide details of the importance it plays for the nation and the various organizations that monitor them. It also explains in detail how the nurses are working towards the Millennium Development Goals. Adopted by world leaders in September 2000 and set to be achieved by 2015, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) provide concrete, numerical benchmarks for tackling extreme poverty in its many dimensions. The MDGs also provide a framework for the entire international community to work together towards a common end, making sure that human development reaches everyone, everywhere. The plan was for countries and development partners to work together to reduce poverty and hunger, tackle ill-health, gender inequality, lack of education, lack of access to clean water and environmental degradation. If these goals are achieved, world poverty will be cut by half, tens of millions of lives will be saved, and billions more people will have the opportunity to benefit from the global economy (United Nations Development Programme, 2010, p. 1).
World leaders established eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and identified several indicators to monitor progress, several of which relate directly to health. All the goals and their targets are measured in terms of progress since 1990. Reporting on progress towards the MDGs has underscored the importance of producing more reliable and timely data. While some countries have made impressive gains in achieving health-related targets, others are falling behind. Often the countries making the least progress are those affected by high levels of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) / acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AID) economic hardship or conflict. In this presentation we will discuss in detail one of the eight MDGs which is, Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

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