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Short Summary
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| Title |
Who's got the Power? Transforming Health Systems
for Women and Children |
| Author |
Freedman, L., Waldman, R., de Pinho, H., and Wirth,
M. |
| Publication
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March 2005 |
| Publisher |
Earthscan and the Millennium Project |
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Short Summary |
The Millennium Project Task Force on Child Health
and Maternal Health is assessing progress on Millennium Development
Goal (MDG) 4 on child mortality and Goal 5 on maternal health. Their
report argues that Goals 4 and 5 are attainable - but not without
extraordinary effort. Currently 10.8 million children under age five
die each year and 530,000 women die from maternal-related illness
each year. In fact, the full access to and utilisation of proven,
effective interventions would avert two-thirds of child deaths and
three-quarters of maternal deaths. So who has the power to make progress
on these goals? The report concludes that an intense focus on improving
health systems is the only way to achieve the dramatic and sustainable
progress required. They advance a comprehensive action plan that recommends
dramatic increases in aid flows from bilateral donors and international
financial institutions, in conjunction with an increase in allocations
to the health sector by national governments. Rapid and equitable
scaling-up is required of interventions such as the universal provision
of emergency obstetric care and sexual and reproductive health services,
the integrated management of childhood illness, and the provision
of strengthened health systems particularly at the district level.
The report also concludes that user fees for basic health services
should be abolished.
Note that the complete file is very large (1.85MB). You can opt to
download sections of the report:
http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/reports/tf_health.htm
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adapted from report |
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