Prevention and Intervention
Millennium Development Goals were created to improve the health and well being of people worldwide. Its fourth goal is to decrease the number of mortalities within the infant and childhood population by two thirds, meaning it will decrease mortality from 95 to 31 deaths per 1000. Countries slow to abide by the Millennium Development Goal by 2015 are projected to have difficulty in reaching goal four.
Read more about this topic: Infant Mortality
Other articles related to "prevention and intervention, prevention, intervention":
... The goal of prevention and intervention strategies is to stop school violence from occurring ... According to the CDC, there are at least four levels at which violence-prevention programs can act at the level of society in general, the school community, the family, and the individual ... Society-level prevention strategies aim to change social and cultural conditions in order to reduce violence regardless of where the violence occurs ...
... work to prevent domestic violence by offering safe shelter, crisis intervention, advocacy, and education and prevention programs ...
Famous quotes containing the words intervention and/or prevention:
“I was curious, I was avid to know only what I found more real than myself, that which allowed me to glimpse the thoughts of a great genius, or the force or grace of nature left to its own devices, without the intervention of man.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
“... if this world were anything near what it should be there would be no more need of a Book Week than there would be a of a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.”
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)