title: Achieving Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 in India.
abstract: This review relates to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), especially MDGs 4 and 5, by India by the year 2015. India contributes the maximum number of maternal deaths (68,000) to the global estimate of 358,000 maternal deaths annually. Infant mortality rate (IMR) is also high at 50 per 1000 (2009). Low budgetary spending on health, poverty, lower literacy, poor nutritional status, rural-urban divide and lack of trained workers in the health sector are cited as reasons for a high maternal mortality ratio and IMR. Increased spending by the Government of India on the health sector has started to show encouraging results. Recent assessments by world bodies like the World Health Organisation have given hope that MDGs 4 and 5 are achievable.
authors.affiliation: FRCOG, Salt Lake City, Kolkata, India. alokenduchatterjee@gmail.com
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chatterjee
authors.forename: V P
authors.initials: VP
authors.lastname: Paily
mesh_terms: D002423:Cause of Death; D002662:Child Health Services; D046688:Child Mortality; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005193:Family Planning Services; D005260:Female; D006291:Health Policy; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D007223:Infant; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008427:Maternal Health Services; D008428:Maternal Mortality; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D011247:Pregnancy; D014480:United Nations / Q000592:standards*