Abstract
OBJECTIVES: The Millennium Development Goals are centered around combatting poverty and other social evils all over the world. Thus, this study seeks to identify the Millennium Development Goals as an object of study in theses from Postgraduate Nursing Programs in Brazil scoring 5 (national excellence) and 6 or 7 (international excellence), and evaluate the association between the score for the program and achieving the Millennium Development Goals. METHOD: Exploratory descriptive document research. Data were collected from the Notes on Indicators/Coordination for Higher Education Personnel Improvement for the 15 Postgraduate Nursing Courses scoring between 5 and 7 in the three-year-period of 2010/2012. RESULTS: of the 8 Millennium Development Objectives, 6 were dealt with in the theses. There was an association (Fisher's exact test p-value=0.0059) between the distribution of the theses and the program scores in relation to the Millennium Development Objectives (p-valor=0.0347) CONCLUSION: the doctoral theses were slightly related to the Millennium Development Objectives, covering the population's economic development, health conditions and quality of life. It is recommended that Postgraduate Programs in Nursing pay closer attention to the Millennium Development Objectives..
Highlights
The mission of the United Nations Development Program (UNPD), established by the United Nations (UN) is to collaborate in development and eliminate poverty, as well as contributing to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDG)(1)
When Fisher’s exact test was applied to the data in Table 2 the result was p-value=0.0059, in other words, lower than 0.05, confirming the hypothesis that there is a link between the distribution of the theses produced in the Nursing Programs awarded the highest CAPES scores and their link with the MDGs
The presence of MDGs as an object of study in the 477 doctoral theses from the PGPNur with scores of 5, 6 and 7 between 2010 and 2012 in Brazil is still relatively slight, in other words, 174 (36.48%), despite their addressing the link between economic development and health conditions and quality of life for the population
Summary
The mission of the United Nations Development Program (UNPD), established by the United Nations (UN) is to collaborate in development and eliminate poverty, as well as contributing to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDG)(1). These objectives aim to improve the destiny of humanity in this century and involve the areas of social public policy and commitment to development on all continents[1]. In 2000, though the UNPD, Brazil and another 188 nations signed up to an agreement to combat extreme poverty and other evils of world society. There are 8 goals, namely: 1) reduce poverty/hunger/ misery by half; 2) achieve universal access to primary education; 3) promote gender equality; 4) reduce infant mortality; 5) improve maternal health; 6) combat HIV/ AIDS, malaria and other diseases; 7) quality of life and guaranteed environmental sustainability and 8) establishing development partnerships[1]
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