title: Big hopes for the children of the world: a review of the Millennium Development Goals.
abstract: The Millennium Development Goals are a set of eight goals drafted by the United Nations in 2000 with the aim of improving the health and welfare of people worldwide. The goals provide specific targets to be met by 2015, using the 1990 basis as a standard. This review  presents these goals as they relate to children, discussing progress and future aims. Although not all eight goals specifically address children, each has its own impact on global child health. Thus far, much progress has been made, but increased rates of improvement must be achieved in order  to meet the goals by 2015 and improve the health of children worldwide.
authors: Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.
authors: E M
authors: EM
authors: Keating
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Chock
authors: P R
authors: PR
authors: Fischer
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002669:Child Welfare; D002675:Child, Preschool; D014943:Global Health; D006040:Goals; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D014480:United Nations