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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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