Targets may be absolute (e.g. the MDG target for material mortality ratio states: "Reduce by three-quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio"), in which an explicit, measurable target is specified using a measurement metric that is scientifically acceptable and politically understandable.
However, the confidence interval of Maternal Mortality Ratio for targets and projected values are not overlapping indicating that achieving the target for Maternal Mortality Ratio is less likely provided that the current trend continues.
At the present rate of progress, the region will fall well short of the Millennium Development Goal target for maternal mortality reduction (MDG 5).
Secondly, the goverment of Ethiopia is less likely to achieve the MDG target for Maternal Mortality Ratio if the rate of decreament is not changed.
This indicates that it would be difficult to reach to the MDG target for maternal mortality unless the current rate of decreament is enhanced.
The data of this study substantiate the need for specification of regional targets for reducing mortality related to diabetes, as has been previously recommended [ 26].
For that, along with ambitious targets for child mortality and disease reduction, is what Namibia, the focus of this article, and every other government committed themselves to when they signed the United Nations Millennium Declarationn in September 2000.
To reach 2030 national targets for neonatal mortality and stillbirth rates of ≤12 per 1000 births, high and equitable coverage of the evidence-based interventions identified by ENAP is needed [ 9].
Infection control, particularly with respect to hospital-acquired infections; the establishment of medical oncology as well as rehabilitation, chronic and terminal health care facilities; regional targets for reducing mortality related to diabetes; recruitment of organ donors and provision for the aging population are some of the issues that need prompt solutions.
Inadequacies of the emergency care service, infection control, medical oncology, rehabilitation, chronic and terminal care facilities, as well as lack of regional targets for reducing mortality related to diabetes, recruitment of organ donors, provision for the aging population and lack of prevention programs were substantiated.
