Setting goals for health in a time of prosperity

Leeder, Stephen R

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2005.tb07025.x

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Millennium Development Goals for the world’s poorest nations need to be matched by Health Priority Goals for prosperous nations, to relieve the burden of wealth-related disease

We have a set of clear and challenging goals — the Millennium Development Goals, adopted by the United Nations in 2000 — to improve the health of the poorest 760 million people on earth,1 but none for health development for the rest of us, and it is time that we did.

University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW.

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