SAC #5 Flashcards
What is the acronym for the eight millennium development goals?
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What is the purpose for goal 1?
- Reduce the proportion of people living on less than US$1 per day.
- To achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people
- To reduce the proportion of people suffering from hunger.
Why is goal 1 important?
- Lack of income leads to lack of resources and infrastructure.
- Poverty and hunger reduce immune function and increase mortality rates from preventable diseases particularly infectious diseases.
- Lack of income reduces the capacity for a country to develop its economy which reduces levels of human development experienced
What is goal 1?
Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger.
What is goal 2?
Achieve universal primary education.
What is the purpose of goal 2?
- To provide access to education for males and females.
Why is goal 2 important?
- Education promotes greater employment prospects, which in turn decreases levels of poverty experienced and allows children to be educated which helps break the poverty cycle.
- Health promoting behaviours are also enhanced with literacy.
What is goal 3?
Promote gender equality and empower women.
What is the purpose of goal 3?
- To provide equal access for women and men at all levels of education.
Why is goal 3 important?
- Women often don’t have access to meaningful employment.
- Women pass health related knowledge ect on to children.
- Increases the level of human development experienced by women and allows them to care for their families better.
- Increased education leads to increased SES. This contributes to better health and human development for women.
What is goal 4?
Reduce child mortality.
What is the purpose of goal 4?
- To reduce the under 5 mortality rate.
Why is goal 4 important?
- Children often die from easily preventable diseases.
- Children are the future of the country’s society and economy.
What is goal 5?
Improve maternal health.
What is the purpose of goal 5?
- To reduce the maternal mortality ratio.
- To increase access to reproductive services.
Why is goal 5 important?
- Maternal mortality rates are high in developing countries.
- If mothers are in good health, they can take better care of their families.
- Providing access to reproductive health services means that women are better suited to take care of them selves and their children through seeking advice and treatment.
What is goal 6?
Combat HIV/AIDs, malaria and other diseases.
What is the purpose of goal 6?
- To halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDs.
- Achieve universal treatment for HIV/AIDs for those who need it.
- To halt and begin to reverse the spread of malaria and other major diseases.
Why is goal 6 important?
- Simple cost effective methods can reverse the risk of contracting malaria and HIV
- HIV reduces the impact of individuals to work and provide for their family.
- Thousands of children are orphaned which reduces their chance of education and a productive life.
What is goal 7?
Ensure environmental sustainability.
What is the purpose of goal 7?
- To incorporate principles of sustainable development into country policies and reverses the loss of environmental resources.
- Reduce biodiversity loss.
- Increase access to safe water and sanitation.
- Improve the lives of slum dwellers.
Why is goal 7 important?
- Future generations can then provide for themselves and their children.
- Biodiversity is essential for future food supplies and income generation
- Lack of water is responsible for many deaths each year.
- Hundreds of millions of people live in urban slums where the physical environment results in many deaths.
What is goal 8?
Develop a global partnership for development.
What is the purpose of goal 8?
- To address the needs of the least developed countries, land locked countries and small island developing states.
- To create fair trading policies for developing countries.
- To eliminate the debt of developing countries.
- To provide affordable medication through partnerships with pharmaceutical companies.
- Enhance the availability to ICT and other technologies by working with the private sector.
Why is goal 8 important?
- There is a lot of potential for developing countries to improve their economies. This can improve health and human development outcomes.
- Developed countries have a large part to play in enhancing health and human development in developing countries by increasing aid, and wiping debt.
What are the targets for goal 1?
- Halve between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1.25 a day.
- Achieve, full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people.
- Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger.
What are the targets for goal 2?
- Ensure that by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling.
What are the targets for goal 3?
- Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015.
What are the eight millennium development goals?
- Eradicate extreme poverty.
- Achieve universal primary education.
- Promote gender equality and empower women.
- Reduce child mortality.
- Improve maternal health.
- Combat HIV/AIDs, malaria and other diseases.
- Ensure environmental stability.
- Develop a global partnership for development.
