MCQ MAHE 2000 PSM Answer 13

The World Health Assembly has adopted the following set of new goals to be reached by, or before, 2020:

• By 2005, health equity indices will be used within and between countries as a basis for promoting and monitoring equity in health.
• By 2010, transmission of Chagas' disease will be interrupted, and leprosy will be eliminated.
• By 2020, maternal mortality rates will be halved; the worldwide burden of disease will be substantially decreased by reversing the current trends of incidence and disability caused by tuberculosis, malaria, HIV/AIDS, tobacco-related diseases, and violence; measles will be eradicated; and lymphatic filariasis eliminated.
• By 2020, all countries will have made major progress in making available safe drinking water, adequate sanitation, food and shelter in sufficient quantity and
• quality; all countries will have introduced and be actively managing monitoring strategies that strengthen health-enhancing lifestyles and weaken health-damaging ones, through a combination of regulatory, economic, educational, organization-based, and community-based programs.
• By 2005, member states will have operational mechanisms for developing, implementing, and monitoring policies that are consistent with the HFA policy.
• By 2010, appropriate global and national health information, surveillance, and alert systems will be operational; research policies and institutional mechanisms will be operational at global, regional, and country levels; and all people will have access throughout their lives to comprehensive, essential, quality health care, supported by essential public health functions.

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