China's progress towards the health MDGs : China's Progress Towards the Health MDGs

40645 Rural Health in China: Briefing Notes Series China's Progress Towards the Health MDGs health MDGs, and that this is largely due to The MDG challenge shortcomings in its health system. The Millennium Development Goals* (MDGs) Box 1: The Health MDGs have been enthusiastically endorsed by China. Nearly half concern health, directly or indirectly. Goal 1 is to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. The goals call for specific reductions over the One of the two targets is to halve between 1990 and period 1990-2015 in a relatively small set of key 2015 the proportion of people who suffer from indicators, such as child malnutrition, child hunger. Indicators used to monitor progress are the mortality and maternal mortality, and for fraction of the population below the minimum level progress in combating communicable diseases of dietary energy consumption and the prevalence of such as HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis underweight children under five years of age. Hitting the target would require an annual average rate of (TB) (see Box 1). reduction of 2.7% between 1990 and 2015.