Millennium Developmental Goal (MDG)

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Introduction:
The world health organization is a specified agency of the United Nations that is
work with international public health. The world health organization plays a vital part in the
worldwide governance of disease and heath (Who.int. 2019). It makes an significant influence to
economic progress, as it aims to achieve healthy population with greater life span, more
productive and save factors which influence the status and a country’s ability probity to provide
best possible care to the patients. In order to improve international public health, all 191
members of the united nation have developed eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and
agreed to achieve the goals by 2015 (Satterthwaite, 2016). The members of it declared as well as
a signed in September 2000 commits with an intention of combating poverty, hunger, disease,
literacy, environmental sustainability and discrimination within women (Who.int., 2019). The
purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the health issue in Haiti and Millennium
Developmental Goal (MDG) to reduce the health issues which would be discussed in the
following paragraphs.
Global health goals:
For this assignment, the chosen goal out of eight goals of Millennium Developmental
Goal (MDG) is the first goal, to eliminate extreme poverty and hunger. As discussed above in
order to address a public health concern, the Millennium Development goal was developed .
While some countries have made an impressive gain in achieving these goals, others failed to
achieve it. The prime objective of this goal is to attain food security and improved nutrition as
well as to promote sustainable agriculture (Simon et al., 2016). This goal is crucial since more
than 759 million people in the global population do not have adequate food to lead a healthy and
active life, accountable for one in nine people in the world (Undp.org., 2019). The prime cause

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behind this hunger is poverty as well as lack resources and an estimated 7.6 million children died
in 2010 (Battersby , 2017).. In underdeveloped countries, 40 to 75% of the children are
malnourished and experienced deficiencies of zinc, vitamin A; the death associated with hunger
is 45% (Henry-Lee, 2016). Hence, this goal is crucial to achieving in order to reduce the global
reduce the chronic disease such as pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria cholera. In developing
countries, the rate declined from 28% to 17% which is very close to the target (Henry-Lee,
2016).
Country and Goal Progress:
For this assignment, the chosen country is Haiti. In April 2017, Haiti had the lowest
variability of food in the world and 50% of Haiti;’ population is undernourished. One in five
children are malnourished and one in fourteen children die before age five. Incidence of poverty
is 59% or 6.3 million people. However, Haiti has made vast progress in achieving the first goal
of millennium development (Undp.org., 2019). The indicator for progress is reduced
malnutrition, mortality, and underweight. In Haiti, children under 5 years who were severely
underweight went from 27.5% in 1998 to 11.4% in 2012, a decrease in the rate of nearly 60%
(Undp.org., 2019). The mortality rate has also been decreased since 1995, went from 109 deaths
per 1000 to 59 death (Undp.org., 2019). The country keeps a track to see the progress of
achievements of this first goal by measuring key indicators such as reduced poverty rate, rate of
underweight, malnutrition rate, rate of employment, malnutrition with the assistance of survey or
field-based observation (Babu, 2017)..
Nursing role:
In the current context, the first role is to develop advocacy regarding the low
nutritional resources of Haiti. By developing advocacy against the low nutritional resources,