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Plans and prospects for the 2020s: Beyond peak health?
For decades, the health and wellbeing of people in low- and middle-income countries has been recognized as a concern of enormous magnitude and global importance. Substantial investments have been made in priorities defined in the Millennium Development Goals, and in disease-specific programs targeting HIV/AIDS and many other diseases, leading to important achievements. The Sustainable Development Goals have now been conceived to motivate and guide progress towards health and development ambitions for 2030.
In this month's Editorial, recognizing possible challenges including climate change, population growth and infectious disease outbreaks, the PLOS Medicine Editors discuss prospects for achievement of a continuing trajectory of improvement in global health and development in the coming decade.
Image Credit: geralt, Pixabay
Citation: (2020) PLoS Medicine Issue Image | Vol. 17(2) October 2020. PLoS Med 17(2): ev17.i02. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pmed.v17.i02
Published: October 5, 2020
Copyright: © 2020 . This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
For decades, the health and wellbeing of people in low- and middle-income countries has been recognized as a concern of enormous magnitude and global importance. Substantial investments have been made in priorities defined in the Millennium Development Goals, and in disease-specific programs targeting HIV/AIDS and many other diseases, leading to important achievements. The Sustainable Development Goals have now been conceived to motivate and guide progress towards health and development ambitions for 2030.
In this month's Editorial, recognizing possible challenges including climate change, population growth and infectious disease outbreaks, the PLOS Medicine Editors discuss prospects for achievement of a continuing trajectory of improvement in global health and development in the coming decade.
Image Credit: geralt, Pixabay