Millennium Development Goals for Health, Nutrition and Population : Working Together to Accelerate Progress.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (206 pages)
Intro -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Key Messages and Policy Highlights -- Statistical Highlights -- Abbreviations -- Overview: Rising to the Challenges -- PART I The Millennium Development Goal Challenges -- CHAPTER 1 Backdrop to the Millennium Development Goals -- CHAPTER 2 The Millennium Development Goals for Health: Progress and Prospects -- CHAPTER 3 Effective Interventions Exist-They Need to Reach More People -- PART II Rising to the Challenges -- CHAPTER 4 Extra Government Health Spending Is Necessary but Not Sufficient-Health Sector Strengthening Is Also Required, and Spending Needs to Be Better Targeted -- CHAPTER 5 Households-Key but Underrated Actors in the Health Sector -- CHAPTER 6 Improving Service Delivery -- CHAPTER 7 Tackling Human Resource and Pharmaceutical Constraints -- CHAPTER 8 Strengthening Core Public Health Functions -- CHAPTER 9 Financing Additional Spending for the Millennium Development Goals-In a Sustainable Way -- CHAPTER 10 Applying the Lessons of Development Assistance for Health -- Appendixes -- APPENDIX A Data and Methods -- APPENDIX B Why Tracking Progress toward the Health Goals Isn't Easy -- Index -- Boxes -- Box 1 The health-related Millennium Development Goals -- Box 1.1 Worlds apart:The poor die earlier -- Box 1.2 The promising (and challenging) array of health-related partnerships -- Box 2.1 Why the decline in maternal mortality is slowing -- Box 3.1 Low coverage of HIV/AIDS interventions -- Box 4.1 Coupling targeting with institutional innovation through social investment funds -- Box 4.2 Marginal budgeting for bottlenecks -- Box 5.1 Key family practices for the production of child health and nutrition -- Box 5.2 Why people can go hungry when food is plentiful -- Box 5.3 Social solidarity in Côte d'Ivoire -- Box 5.4 Blanket subsidies often benefit the better off most. Box 5.5 Vouchers for sex workers in Nicaragua -- Box 5.6 Increasing coverage of key interventions through demand-side incentives -- Box 5.7 Helping poor women protect themselves-India's SEWA -- Box 5.8 Working with the private sector to improve hygiene behaviors -- Box 5.9 Radio dramas to promote contraception -- Box 5.10 Argentina's water privatization program saved young lives -- Box 6.1 The changing mix of cure and care: Who treats what-and where? -- Box 6.2 Who delivers which care for the Millennium Development Goals for health? -- Box 6.3 Different management styles, different countries-but just miles apart -- Box 6.4 Management in India's Tamil Nadu Integrated Nutrition Program -- Box 6.5 Innovative and effective management of public health workers in Ceara, Brazil -- Box 6.6 Contracting health services in Cambodia, Guatemala, and Pakistan -- Box 7.1 Ghana's loss of health sector workers -- Box 7.2 The devastating impact of HIV/AIDS on the health workforce -- Box 7.3 Competing with the private sector in Bolivia -- Box 7.4 What do health workers in India want most? -- Box 7.5 Lack of drugs threatens the Millennium Development Goals -- Box 7.6 Inappropriate or "irrational" drug use -- Box 7.7 The problem of counterfeit drugs -- Box 7.8 Do we know how affordable drugs really are? -- Box 7.9 High drug costs in Vietnam deter use and cause impoverishment -- Box 7.10 Perverse provider incentives and tuberculosis drugs in Georgia -- Box 7.11 Drug subsidies and drug insurance: Different countries, different policies -- Box 7.12 The attractions of pooled procurement -- Box 7.13 The Accelerating Access Initiative for antiretroviral drugs -- Box 7.14 Global public-private partnerships to accelerate the introduction of new vaccines -- Box 8.1 Increasing the supply of and demand for insecticide-treated bednets. Box 8.2 Reducing communicable diseases through disease surveillance in Brazil -- Box 8.3 Monitoring progress toward the Millennium Development Goals in the Dominican Republic -- Box 8.4 Core public health functions and the case for public management -- Box 8.5 Strengthening core public health functions to combat HIV/AIDS -- Box 9.1 Raising tax levels in the developing world-hard but doable -- Box 10.1 The importance of country commitment: How Bangladesh and Thailand have fared in reducing malnutrition -- Box 10.2 Helping eradicate polio through IDA credit buy-downs -- Box 10.3 Improving performance of the health sector in Guinea -- Box 10.4 Increasing health sector spending and immunization coverage by reforming the budget process in Mauritania -- Box 10.5 Harmonizing, monitoring, and evaluating HIV/AIDS programs -- Box 10.6 Key actions to accelerate progress on the health, nutrition, and population Millennium Goals:The Ottawa consensus -- Box 10.7 Summary of recommendations for action from the High-Level Forum on the Millennium Development Goals for Health held -- Figures -- Figure 1 The poorest countries suffer the highest burdens of premature mortality and malnutrition -- Figure 2 Faster economic growth and other changes outside the health sector will help move regions toward the targets, but in -- Figure 3 Full use of existing interventions would reduce maternal deaths dramatically -- Figure 4 Paths to better health, nutrition, and population outcomes -- Figure 5 What makes service providers accountable -- Figure 6 What health workers in Andhra Pradesh want from their jobs-and whether they get it -- Figure 2.1 Progress on malnutrition, under-five mortality, and maternal mortality, by region and income -- Figure 2.2 People on track to hit malnutrition, under-five mortality, and maternal mortality targets. Figure 2.3 Countries on track to hit malnutrition, under-five mortality, maternal mortality targets -- Figure 2.4 Some countries are reducing malnutrition quickly. In others malnutrition has fallen less slowly, and in some it has increased. -- Figure 2.5 How the poor have fared on malnutrition reductions-absolutely and compared with the less poor -- Figure 2.6 How the poor have fared on under-five mortality reductions-absolutely and compared with the less poor -- Figure 2.7 Child mortality-the pace of decline is too slow, and in the developing world it's getting even slower -- Figure 2.8 Child mortality-percentage of countries with a faster rate of decline in the 1990s than in the 1980s -- Figure 2.9 Trends in HIV prevalence among pregnant women in Uganda, 1990-2001 -- Figure 2.10 Tuberculosis DOTS detection rates, selected countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1995-2001 -- Figure 2.11 Tuberculosis DOTS cure rates, selected countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1994-2000 -- Figure 2.12 Past performance is not necessarily a good predictor of future performance: under-five mortality -- Figure 2.13 Growth rates of per capita income: actual 1990-2000 and forecasts for 2001-15 -- Figure 2.14 Girls catching up with boys at secondary school level-growth needed in the share of female population over age 15 who have completed secondary education to eliminate the secondary education gender gap -- Figure 2.15 In all but two regions access to drinking water needs to grow faster to achieve the water target -- Figure 3.1 Why children die -- Figure 3.2 The arsenal of effective interventions against childhood killers -- Figure 3.3 Interventions for reducing maternal mortality -- Figure 3.4 Low-income countries lag behind on key preventive interventions for maternal and child health. Figure 3.5 Use of key preventive interventions for maternal and child health is lower in some regions than others -- Figure 3.6 Some children with acute respiratory infections receive treatment-others don't -- Figure 3.7 Proportion of children age 12-23 mos who received full basic immunization coverage- poorest 20 percent vs. population as a whole -- Figure 3.8 Use trends for household-delivered and professionally delivered interventions -- Figure 3.9 Full use of existing interventions would dramatically cut child deaths -- Figure 3.10 Full use of existing interventions would dramatically cut maternal deaths -- Figure 4.1 CPIA scores across Bank regions -- Figure 4.2 The contributions of faster growth of government health spending in countries with good policies and institutions -- Figure 4.3 Paths to better health, nutrition, and population outcomes -- Figure 5.1 Who gets subsidies? -- Figure 5.2 Under Bolivia's National Maternal and Child Insurance Program key maternal health interventions rose fastest among the poor -- Figure 5.3 Poor women have less of a say in spending their own money -- Figure 5.4 Fewer poor women have completed the fifth grade -- Figure 7.1 Doctors across the world in the 1990s-how many and how much change -- Figure 7.2 Doctors across Sub-Saharan Africa in the 1990s-how many and how much change -- Figure 7.3 Stocks and flows in human resources -- Figure 9.1 Government health spending is higher in richer countries, but private health spending is higher in low-income countries -- Figure 9.2 Some countries spend considerably less than expected on government health programs-and some spend more -- Figure 9.3 Health absorbs a higher share of government spending, and general revenues absorb a higher share of GDP in richer. Figure 9.4 Small health shares and low government revenues cause some low-income countries to spend less than they can afford to on health.
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