Sentences with phrase «halving child mortality»

The report explored the potential of biotechnology solutions to the U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of development goals (such as halving child mortality) for all developing countries to reach by 2015.

The target to halve the child mortality rate by 2018 have not been met in this reporting period.

The tenth Closing the Gap report to be tabled in Parliament today is expected to show progress in the two health targets — to close the gap in life expectancy by 2031 and halve the child mortality (death) gap by 2018.

We are on track to halve the child mortality gap, but in other areas progress has been uneven — and there is more to do.

Not exact matches

At current trends, 60 million children will die before their fifth birthday between 2017 and 2030, half of them newborns, according to the report released by UNICEF, WHO, the World Bank and the Population Division of UNDESA which make up the Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation.

Indeed, recent analyses indicate that as much as one half of under - five child mortality is associated with malnutrition.

For example, child mortality has effectively halved worldwide, from 90 per 1,000 births in 1990 to 46 in 2013, equivalent to 17,000 fewer children dying each day.

Death rates for each major category of childhood cancer, for example, decreased by about half since 1970 and continue to drop, but since fewer than one - third of 1 percent of cancer deaths occur in children younger than age 15, even the complete elimination of childhood cancer deaths would have little impact on overall cancer mortality.

This is a time for optimism and celebration of the remarkable gains to which the MDGs have contributed worldwide, including: decreasing the global share of people living on less than $ 1.25 per day by more than two - thirds since 1990; more than halving the rate of child mortality; and reaching gender parity in primary - school enrollment.

You're unlikely to read this in the mainstream media, but there is some good news about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health — for example, the goal to halve the gap in infant and child mortality (0 - 5 years) by 2018 is on track (according to the latest Health Performance Framework report).

Felitti and colleagues1 first described ACEs and defined it as exposure to psychological, physical or sexual abuse, and household dysfunction including substance abuse (problem drinking / alcoholic and / or street drugs), mental illness, a mother treated violently and criminal behaviour in the household.1 Along with the initial ACE study, other studies have characterised ACEs as neglect, parental separation, loss of family members or friends, long - term financial adversity and witness to violence.2 3 From the original cohort of 9508 American adults, more than half of respondents (52 %) experienced at least one adverse childhood event.1 Since the original cohort, ACE exposures have been investigated globally revealing comparable prevalence to the original cohort.4 5 More recently in 2014, a survey of 4000 American children found that 60.8 % of children had at least one form of direct experience of violence, crime or abuse.6 The ACE study precipitated interest in the health conditions of adults maltreated as children as it revealed links to chronic diseases such as obesity, autoimmune diseases, heart, lung and liver diseases, and cancer in adulthood.1 Since then, further evidence has revealed relationships between ACEs and physical and mental health outcomes, such as increased risk of substance abuse, suicide and premature mortality.4 7

AIDA is firmly committed to working across the health education and training sector to achieve Close the Gap's key health targets; namely, to close the life expectancy gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous Australians by 2031, and to halve the gap in mortality rates for Indigenous children under five by 2018.

He said he was particularly «saddened and disappointed» that the target to halve the gap in Indigenous child mortality is not on track, with just one (Year 12 attainment) of seven health and wellbeing targets looking achievable — a worse result than last year.

This year it is expected that two more targets will be marked as on track — the goal to halve the gap in Indigenous child mortality rates and to improve early childhood education attendance.

The Campaign was especially concerned that the target to halve the gap in child mortality by 2018 is not on track and that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander child mortality did not improve significantly over the period 2008 - 2015.

[75] As a result, the five - State total is on track to meet the COAG Closing the Gap Target to halve the gap in child mortality rates by 2018.

Over the past few decades, child mortality for children under 5 years old has been reduced by more than half.

This is intended to contribute to addressing the COAG - agreed closing the gap targets for Indigenous Australians, closing the life expectancy gap within a generation and halving the mortality gap for children under five within a decade.

at the December 2007 Council of Australian Governments meeting where Australian governments committed to closing the life expectancy gap within a generation, and halving the mortality gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non - Indigenous children under 5 - years of age.