World Bank questions focus of global healthcare goals
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Global healthcare policies in Europe and Central Asia mistakenly concentrate too much on reducing child and maternal mortality, while failing to fully address other causes of poor health in most of the region, such as cardiovascular health and lung cancer. So says the World Bank of its analysis of the millennium development goals agreed by world leaders in 2000, in a bid to assess their appropriateness for countries in the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region.
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