GLOBAL HEALTH AND

MILLENIUM
DEVELOPMENT GOALS
Grade 10 - Quarter III Health
Content Outline
01. Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger

02. Achieve Universal Primary Education

03. Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women

04. Reduce Child Mortality

05. Improve Maternal Health

06. Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Other Diseases

07. Ensure Environmental Sustainability

08. Global Partnership for Development

Topics for Discussion

MILLENIUM
DEVELOPMENT
GOALS
The United Nations Millennium
Development Goals are eight targets
that all 191 UN Member States have
agreed to achieve by 2015.
Millenium Development Goals
MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
The United Nations Millennium Declaration, signed in
September 2000 commits world leaders to fight
discrimination against women and children, disease,
hunger, poverty, illiteracy, and environmental degradation.
All of these goals cannot be
attained without addressing
each and everyone. All of them
influence, affect and depend
on better global health
programs and policies.
Millenium Development Goals
ERADICATE
EXTREME Developing countries
POVERTY AND particularly in Africa and Asia
HUNGER suffer from extreme poverty and
hunger. Poverty and hunger
leads to severe malnutrition
which leads to lifelong physical
and cognitive (learning and
reasoning) damage and affects
health, well-being and the
Millenium Development Goals economy.
ACHIEVE Persons, particularly women who
UNIVERSAL are educated, are more likely to
PRIMARY seek medical care especially
EDUCATION during pregnancy, ensuring
proper nutrition for their family,
adopting healthy sanitary
practices and ensuring
immunization of children. As an
effect, infants and children
have better survival rates, are
Millenium Development Goals healthier and better nourished.
PROMOTE GENDER
EQUALITY AND Gender equality means equal
EMPOWER representation of men and
women. It implies that all gender
WOMEN
should have equal value and
treatment. Equal gender
treatment empowers women and
other groups creating
opportunities in education, work,
finances, and other aspects which
improves the economy and lessen
Millenium Development Goals effects of financial crises.
 Programs and policies which
REDUCE help reduce child mortality like
MORTALITY improving nutritional intake,
healthcare facilities and
infrastructure, and other fields
which improve children's lives.
Strengthening local and
national health programs and
policies is one way to reduce
Millenium Development Goals
child mortality.
IMPROVE Improved maternal health is not
MATERNAL only about mother's health but
HEALTH also involves the health and
wellness of the family.
Maternal health also helps
eradicate other problems like
poverty, gender inequality,
decreased workforce, lower birth
deaths, and disability of women.
Millenium Development Goals
COMBAT Emerging and re-emerging
HIV/AIDS, diseases like HIVIAIDS, malaria,
MALARIA AND influenza and other diseases affect
OTHER DISEASES productivity and growth of nations.
Some of the effects of disease
outbreak are loss of jobs, shortage
in professional workers, and
creating social crises. Children are
the most vulnerable and are
exposed to exploitation and abuse
undermining their normal growth
Millenium Development Goals and development.
ENSURE Investing and supporting
ENVIRONMENTAL sustainable energy like solar,
SUSTAINABILITY wind and water energy help
support jobs, create business
opportunities, and save
remaining non-renewable
energy sources. Environmental
sustainability assures peoples
to live healthier and enjoy a
Millenium Development Goals clean and green environment.
GLOBAL
PARTNERSHIP The United Nations, World
FOR Health Organization, World
DEVELOPMENT Bank and governments work
together to make sure there is
fair trade and that heavily
indebted countries obtain
relief and funds to combat
poverty, malnutrition and
funds for education and social
Millenium Development Goals projects.
Which goals
are highly
achievable in
the Philippine
MDG scenario?
What goal in
MDG helps to
avoid the
outbreak of
diseases,
explain why?
How does
MDG aid in
addressing
poverty?
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