At the Millennium Summit in 2000, United Nations members vowed to reduce extreme poverty and set targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
The MDGs have been successful at reducing child mortality, improving maternal health, and combating diseases, but with these accomplishments come new challenges for the health systems of developing countries.
Andrew Scarffe, Research Associate at the Ivey International Centre for Health Innovation, wrote a blog discussing the creation of mutually beneficial partnerships between various health systems.
“Achievement of the MDGs has led to the realization that health systems in developing countries and economies in transition are currently unable to properly address the current epidemiological transition from communicable to non-communicable diseases (NCDs),” Scarffe writes.
