Addressing inequity to achieve the maternal and child health millennium development goals: looking beyond averages

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Authors

George Mugambage Ruhago · Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences

Frida Ngalesoni · Ministry of Health and Social Welfare

Ole Frithjof Norheim · University of Bergen

Abstract

Scaling up priority maternal and child health interventions to equal levels would potentially save far more lives in the poorest populations, and would accelerate equitable progress towards maternal and child health MDGs.

Topics & Keywords

Global Maternal and Child Health Child Nutrition and Water Access Healthcare Systems and Reforms

UN Sustainable Development Goals

No poverty

Publication Details

Published in: BMC Public Health

Volume 12, Issue 1, pp. 1119-1119

DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-1119

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