COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado —The eight existing Millennium Development Goals have helped the world gauge its progress in alleviating global poverty. While world hunger has nearly been cut in half, there are still seven MDGs that remain unreached along with a significant global health issue that remains unmentioned. The sixth Millennium Development Goal focused on halting and reversing the spread of the communicable diseases HIV/AIDS and malaria. However, no MDG specifically addressed the growing risk and severity of various types of noncommunicable diseases – namely, the most prominent and fatal: cardiovascular disease, or CVD. The U.N.’s new Sustainable Development Goals seek…
Author: Paulina Menichiello
Paulina Menichiello
Paulina is from Colorado Springs, CO and a Junior student at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, MO. She studies Public Health with minors in Spanish, English, Urban Poverty Studies. Paulina recently returned from a semester studying abroad in Madrid, Spain, during which she traveled to 10 countries and volunteered as a teacher for a free ESL class for community members.
SEATTLE — The eight existing post-2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have helped the world gauge its progress in alleviating global poverty. We have nearly cut world hunger in half, yet there exists seven MDGs that remain unreached. Moreover, there is a significant global health issue that remains unmentioned. The sixth Millennium Development Goal focused on halting and reversing the spread of the communicable diseases HIV/AIDS and malaria; however, no MDG specifically addressed the growing risk and severity of various types of noncommunicable diseases—namely, the most prominent and fatal: cardiovascular disease. The new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) seek to revalidate and regroup unreached…
ALLENTOWN, Pennsylvania – UNICEF’s Executive Director, Anthony Lake, described the organization’s final assessment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as a “wake-up call” for the global community. The report, “Progress for Children: Beyond Averages,” warned the world that 68 million more children under five will die from mostly preventable causes and 119 million will be chronically malnourished by 2030 unless the global community caters to the most vulnerable populations in the next fifteen years. UNICEF also stated that, despite achievements in reducing child and mother mortality, the MDGs—established in 2000—have “failed millions of disadvantaged children” and increased inequity levels in some…
PANAMA CITY – For the second year in a row, the country of Panama proves that wealth does not necessarily lead to well-being. Panama maintains its title as the nation with the highest well-being – surpassing the United States and wealthy Northern European countries – according to an analysis by the largest, independent well-being improvement company and the leading management consulting firm in the world. The Gallup-Healthways State of Global Well-Being: 2014 Country Well-Being Rankings Report utilized the results of over 146,000 face-to-face interviews in 145 countries to create an index that “captures important aspects of how people feel about…