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QUANTIFYING TARGETS FOR THE SDG HEALTH GOAL

Sunday, 18th of January 2015 Print

QUANTIFYING TARGETS FOR THE SDG HEALTH GOAL

It is likely that the Sustainable Development Goals, the successors to the Millennium Development Goals, will include mention of noncommunicable disease.

The Lancet, Volume 385, No. 9964, p208–209, 17 January 2015

George Alleyne,

Robert Beaglehole,

Ruth Bonita

 

Full text is at

http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736%2814%2961655-X.pdf

 

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) represent the best example of an international commitment to a set of normative principles underpinned by ideals of equity, solidarity, and peace.1,2 The goals achieved universal support because they were ambitious, included indicators that permitted measurement and accountability, and set 2015 for final reporting. The goals institutionalised poverty as multidimensional, and shaped development as beyond economics.3 Criticisms of the MDGs included the omission of many of the concerns of the Millennium Declaration, and the lack of adequate consultation on the process.

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