WORLD BANK REPORT
October 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE WORLD Bank has called on emerging market eastern European and central Asian governments not to slavishly follow the priorities of United Nations' (UN) millennium development goals for health in their region. A new report says these targets "do not address fully the main causes of poor health in Europe and Central Asia, where high burdens of heart disease, lung cancer and injuries reduce life expectancy in many countries". It concluded: "Proportionately more gains in life expectancy would accrue from controlling of (adult) non-communicable ...
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