Can nutrition related millennium development goals be achieved?
Exploring the inter-linkages between nutrition, poverty, socio-economic development and literacy –> Home | Browse by Day | or Program | Author Index 187362 Can nutrition related millennium development goals be achieved? Exploring the inter-linkages between nutrition, poverty, socio-economic development and literacy Monday, October 27, 2008: 1:10 PM Monika S. Sawhney, PhD , School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA M. Mahmud Khan, PhD , Tulane University, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA Audio (mp3) recording Multimedia recording An estimated 852 million people around the world do not have access to adequate food to lead a healthy life. By understanding the severity of nutrition and the long term impact it has, reducing hunger was included as one of the development goals under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The goal is to reduce hunger by half over the period 1990-2015. Improvement in nutritional status wil
