Setting goals for health in a time of prosperity

Millennium Development Goals for the world’s poorest nations need to be matched by Health Priority Goals for prosperous nations, to relieve the burden of wealth-related disease

We have a set of clear and challenging goals — the Millennium Development Goals, adopted by the United Nations in 2000 — to improve the health of the poorest 760 million people on earth,1 but none for health development for the rest of us, and it is time that we did.