Achieving MDGs for Global Health MDG case report Social determinants of health

1. Achieving MDGs for Global Health MDG case reportSocial determinants of health KetmanyChathakoummane (Laos) Yang Liu (China) Si Li (China) Agnes Lai (China)

2. Content • Background of the countries • Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) • Social determinants of health • The situation • The Policies • Existing Problems • Recommendation • Conclusion

3. Background of the country (China) • China Shum Yang Xichan Hong Kong: locates on China's south coast. There are seven million people living in Hong Kong in which there are 95 percent ethnic Chinese and 5 percent from other groups [1].

4. Background of the country (Laos)

5. Millennium Development Goals 1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger 2. Achieve universal primary education 3. Promote gender equality and empower women 4. Reduce child mortality 5. Improve maternal health 6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other disease 7. Ensure environmental sustainability 8. Develop a global partnership for development

6. What is social determinants of health? • Social determinants of health are the circumstances, in which people are born, grow up, live and work. They are affected by the social and health systems implementing to deal with illness. These circumstances are shaped by the allocation of resources at global, national and local levels. • According to MDGs, the first three goals related to social determinants of health including: (i) eradicating extreme poverty and hunger; (ii) achieving universal primary education; and (ii) promoting gender equality and empowering women.

7. Social Health Determinants Goal 2. Achieve universal primary education Goal 3. Promote gender equality and empower women Goal 1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Target 2.A: Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling Target 3.A: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015 Target 1A: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day. Target 1B: Achieve full and productive employment and decent work all including women and young people Target 1C: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger.

8. Current situations

9. The indicators for Goal 1 Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger • 1.1 Proportion of population below $1 (PPP) per day • 1.2 Poverty gap ratio • 1.3 share of poorest quintile in national consumption • 1.4 Growth rate of GDP per person employed • 1.5 Employment-to-population ratio • 1.6 Proportion of employed people living below $1 (PPP) per day • 1.7 Proportion of own-account and contributing family workers in total employment • 1.8 Prevalence of underweight children under-five years of age • 1.9 Proportion of population below min level of dietary energy consumption

10. Poverty

11. Employment

12. Hunger

13. The indicator for Goal 2 Achieve Universal primary education • 2.1 Net enrolment ratio in primary education • 2.2 Proportion of pupils starting grade 1 who reach last grade of primary • 2.3 Literacy rate of 15-24 years old , women and men

14. Education

15. The indicator for Goal 3 Achieve Universal primary education • 3.1 Ratios of girls to boys in primary, secondary and tertiary education • 3.2 Share of women in wage employment in the non-agricultural sector • 3.3 Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament

16. Gender Equality

17. The Policies

18. The Policies for poverty and hunger

19. The Policies for education

20. The Policies for gender equality

21. Exiting Problems

22. Existing Problem on poverty and hunger

23. Existing Problem on education

24. Existing Problem on gender equality

25. Recommendations

26. Recommendations on poverty and hunger

27. Recommendations on education

28. Recommendations on gender equality

29. Conclusion (China) There are good progress to meet the MDGs in China. • Indicators for poverty : 1.1 (60.2% to 11.8%); 1.3 (8% to 4.7%) for education: 2.2 Finish primary education(87.3% to 99%); 2.3 literacy rate(94.3% to 99.6%) for gender equality: 3.1 Secondary education: female to male ratio (0.73 to 1.05) 3.2 Employment : 37.8% to 39.1%) • Educationmeans more than acquiring knowledge. It empowers people to develop personally and become politically active.

30. Conclusion (Laos) There are good progress to meet the MDGs in Laos Indicators for poverty : 1.1 (55.7% to 33.9%); 1.3 (9.3% to 7.6%) for education: 2.2 Finish primary education (87.3% to 99%); 2.3 literacy rate (94.3% to 99.6%) for gender equality: 3.1 Secondary education: female to male ratio (0.66 to 0.85) 3.2 Employment : 20.3% to 31.1%) • Set up a better education system and health facilities to rural area to improve they poverty life and to reduce under 5 mortality rate and child mortality rate

31. Set up a better education system and health facilities to rural area to improve they poverty life and to reduce under 5 mortality rate and child mortality rate.

32. Reference • World health organisation web site: http//www.who.int/social determinants/ the commission • Census and statistics Department, special Report on Gross Domestic Product 2012, http:// www. Censtatd.gov.hk/sub/sp250 • Half-yearly Economic Report, Hong Kong 2012 • http://www.stats.gov.cn/tjsj/ndsj/ • http://unstats.un.org/unsd/mdg/Data.aspx?cr=156 • http://data.un.org/Explorer.aspx • World data bank: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.EMP.TOTL.SP.ZS?page=3 • UN database: http://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=MDG&f=seriesRowID%3A773