Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 Progress in the Least Developed Countries of Asia

• Published in: Social indicators research Vol. 129; no. 2; pp. 489 - 504
• Main Authors: Martín, José Antonio Rodríguez, de Dios Jiménez Aguilera, Juan, Fernández, José Antonio Salinas, Martín, José María Martín
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Science + Business Media 01-11-2016; Springer Netherlands; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Acquired immune deficiency syndrome; AIDS; Attended births; Child Health; Child mortality; Children; Children & youth; Childrens health; Classification; Developed countries; Developing countries; Education; Health disparities; HIV; Human Geography; Human immunodeficiency virus; Industrialized nations; LDCs; Literacy; Maternal & child health; Maternal mortality; Microeconomics; Mortality Rate; Mothers; Objectives; Primary Education; Public Health; Quality of Life Research; Social goals; Social research; Social Sciences; Sociology; Studies; Womens health; Asia; Least developed countries of Asia; Millennium Development Goals; Maternal and Child Health Disparities; Synthetic indicators; Post-2015 agenda
• ISSN: 0303-8300; 1573-0921
• DOI: 10.1007/s11205-015-1149-5

The aim of this study is to propose a territorial measure of maternal and child health in the least developed countries of Asia based on the criteria established in the United Nations Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5, in a context in which international progress between countries has been uneven up to 2013. Pena’s DP 2 method is used to compose a synthetic indicator of MDGs 4 and 5 levels for 2013, the last year for which data are available. The index includes information on different variables defined in the Millennium Declaration, as well as a study of the impact of each individual indicator on the outcome of the synthetic indicator of MDGs 4 and 5 levels, and enables classification of these countries in terms of these variables.