Open AccessHealth-related Millennium Development Goals: How much India has progressed?
Author(s) -
Harshal T Pandve
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
archives of medicine and health sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2321-6085
pISSN - 2321-4848
DOI - 10.4103/2321-4848.171944
Subject(s) - millennium development goals , medicine , malaria , public health , economic growth , child mortality , environmental health , development economics , developing country , population , immunology , nursing , economics
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have to be achieved by 2015. This review article discussed India′s progress toward health-related MDGs of reducing child mortality (Goal 4), improving maternal health (Goal 5), and combating HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases (Goal 6). This review article assesses India′s progress toward these goals as well as focuses on major but neglected road blocks in progress such as deficiencies in public health infrastructure and public health man power of India