Table 5.

United Nations Millennium Goals related to child health assessment.

Goal	Subgoal	Metric
Goal 1: eradicate extreme poverty and hunger	Target 1A: halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people living on less than $1.25 a day	Poverty gap ratio [incidence × depth of poverty]
		Share of poorest quintile in national consumption
	Target 1B: achieve decent employment for women, men, and young people	GDP growth per employed person
		Employment rate
		Proportion of employed population below $1.25 per day (PPP values)
		Proportion of family-based workers in employed population
	Target 1C: halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger	Prevalence of underweight children under 5 years of age
		Proportion of population below minimum level of dietary energy consumption
Goal 2: achieve universal primary education	Target 2A: By 2015, all children can complete a full course of primary schooling, girls and boys	Enrollment in primary education
		Completion of primary education
Goal 3: promote gender equality and empower women	Target 3A: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005 and at all levels by 2015	Ratios of girls to boys in primary, secondary, and tertiary education
		Share of women in wage employment in the non-agricultural sector
		Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament
Goal 4: reduce child mortality rates	Target 4A: Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-5 mortality rate	Under-5 mortality rate
		Infant (under 1) mortality rate
		Proportion of 1-year-old children immunized against measles
Goal 5: improve maternal health	Target 5A: reduce by three-quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio	Maternal mortality ratio
		Proportion of births attended by skilled health personnel
	Target 5B: achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health	Contraceptive prevalence rate
		Adolescent birth rate
		Antenatal care coverage
		Unmet need for family planning
Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases	Target 6A: have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS	HIV prevalence among population aged 15–24 years
		Condom use at last high-risk sex
		Proportion of population aged 15–24 years with comprehensive correct knowledge of HIV/AIDS
	Target 6B: achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it	Proportion of population with advanced HIV infection with access to antiretroviral drugs
	Target 6C: have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases	Prevalence and death rates associated with malaria
		Proportion of children under five sleeping under insecticide-treated bed nets
		Proportion of children under five with fever who are treated with appropriate antimalarial drugs
		Incidence, prevalence, and death rates associated with tuberculosis
		Proportion of tuberculosis cases detected and cured under Directly Observed Treatment Short Course