- Title
- Better Health for Poor People: Strategies for achieving the international development targets
- Imprint
- DFID - Department for International Development, London, November 2000, 50 pp
- ISBN/ISSN
- 1 86192 316 3
- Abstract
"Section 1 of this paper is about the importance of the International Development Targets. Section 2 of this paper considers the nature of the burden of disease and how it is distributed across the world and across societies.This section also considers the determinants of good health, the impact of globalisation, and the proliferation of actors in the international system. Section 3 of this paper considers the progress made and lessons learned.There now exists a remarkable international consensus on priorities, policies and strategies that work and how to go about maximising health development.We are also beginning to witness an increasing amount of resources flowing to the health sector from national governments, charitable foundations and through public-private partnerships.There is a greater recognition of the importance of private as well as public sector health provision for poor people. Section 4 of this paper is concerned with effective international and national action required to take forward this agenda. Better international leadership and co-ordination, not only in the UN but also in the international financial institutions, is crucial. Section 5 of this paper sets out how DFID will respond to this challenge and Section 6 how we will measure progress."