The Millennium Development Goals Fail Poor Children: The Case for Equity-Adjusted Measures
Open Access
- 28 April 2009
- journal article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 6 (4), e1000062
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000062
Abstract
Daniel Reidpath and colleagues use the fourth Millennium Development Goal (MDG) as an illustrative example to highlight the potential to neglect equity in the race to achieve the MDGs.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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