Drivers of inequality in Millennium Development Goal progress: a statistical analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many low- and middle-income countries are not on track to reach the public health targets set out in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). We evaluated whether differential progress towards health MDGs was associated with economic development, public health funding (both overall and as percentage of available domestic funds), or health system infrastructure. We also examined the impact of joint epidemics of HIV/AIDS and noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), which may limit the ability of households to address child mortality and increase risks of infectious diseases.

Methods and findings

We calculated each country's distance from its MDG goals for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and infant and child mortality targets for the year 2005 using the United Nations MDG database f

SUBMITTER: Stuckler D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2830449 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature