The effect of an integrated multisector model for achieving the Millennium Development Goals and improving child survival in rural sub-Saharan Africa: a non-randomised controlled assessment

• Published in: The Lancet (British edition) Vol. 379; no. 9832; pp. 2179 - 2188
• Main Authors: Pronyk, Paul M, Muniz, Maria, Nemser, Ben, Somers, Marie-Andrée, McClellan, Lucy, Palm, Cheryl A, Huynh, Uyen Kim, Amor, Yanis Ben, Begashaw, Belay, McArthur, John W, Niang, Amadou, Sachs, Sonia Ehrlich, Singh, Prabhjot, Teklehaimanot, Awash, Sachs, Jeffrey D
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kidlington Elsevier Ltd 09.06.2012; Elsevier
• Subjects: Africa South of the Sahara; Agriculture - economics; agroecological zones; Biological and medical sciences; business development; Child Health Services - economics; Child Mortality - trends; Child, Preschool; children; Delivery of Health Care - economics; Delivery of Health Care - organization & administration; Economic Development; education; Education - economics; food security; General aspects; growth retardation; Health Expenditures; Healthy People Programs - economics; Healthy People Programs - organization & administration; Humans; Infant; infrastructure; Internal Medicine; local government; malaria; malnutrition; Medical sciences; monitoring; mortality; parasitemia; people; poverty; rural areas; rural development; Rural Health; Rural Health Services - economics; sanitation; Sub-Saharan Africa; United Nations; villages; Sub-Saharan Africa; World; Africa; Africa South of the Sahara; Human; Medicine; Sanitary program; Improvement; Randomization; Rural environment; UNO; Developing countries; Rural area; Models; Child; Survival

Simultaneously addressing multiple Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has the potential to complement essential health interventions to accelerate gains in child survival. The Millennium Villages project is an integrated multisector approach to rural development operating across diverse sub-Saharan...