Fostering future global nurse leaders to work toward meeting Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): a global health intern program at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing

Abstract

circumstances, greater empowerment is associated with greater tobacco use by women. Using Integrated Demographic and Health Series (IDHS) survey data, we investigate this relationship in India 2005 and Uganda 2011. We also explore how women's literacy impacts the relationship between empowerment and smoking behavior, hypothesizing that empowerment/tobacco links will be weaker among literate women.

Analyzing the Scientific Evolution of the Sustainable Development Goals

“…Consequently, due to the complexity of these interrelationships, the wide range of disciplines involved and the complex transition from the MDGs (2000MDGs ( -2015 to the SDGs (2015-2030), scientific research has a fundamental role to play in the success of the SDGs. Although the evolution of this discourse has been the focus of much of the academic literature [15][16][17][18][19][20][21], a comprehensive discursive analysis of the transition from the MDGs to the SDGs has not yet been carried out. As a result, it is impossible to get a single starting point from which to access this topic.…”