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Title: The millennium development goals fail poor children: the case for equity-adjusted measures
Authors: Reidpath, DD
Morel, CM
Mecaskey, JW
Allotey, P
Keywords: Humans;Child, Preschool;health promotion;Health Policy;Poverty;Child Mortality;Goals;Healthcare Disparities;United Nations
Issue Date: 2009
Publisher: Public Library of Science
Citation: PLoS Medicine, 6(4): e1000062, (2009)
Abstract: The spirit of the Millennium Declaration is to address the health and development needs of society’s most vulnerable and least served [1]. Issues of equity form a key principle: We recognize that, in addition to our separate responsibilities to our individual societies, we have a collective responsibility to uphold the principles of human dignity, equality and equity at the global level. As leaders we have a duty therefore to all the world’s people, especially the most vulnerable and, in particular, the children of the world, to whom the future belongs [1].
Description: © 2009 Reidpath et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
URI: http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1000062
http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/10510
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000062
ISSN: 1549-1676
Appears in Collections:Dept of Health Sciences Research Papers

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