Subject(s): Women -- Children -- Health -- Analytical context : Global health from three perspectives, first principles - equity and human rights, health systems crisis in historical context, evidence and challenge of scaling up -- Health status and key interventions : Health status and key interventions : Connecting maternal health and child health, child health, adolesent helath, sexual and reproductive health, conflict affected and displaced populations, maternal mortality and morbidity -- Transforming health systems : market based approaches to healthcare, defining health system, thinking about health systems, redistribution, healthcare financing, organizing health system, health management, health workforce to meet millennium development goals -- Monitoring goals 4 and 5 - target and indicators : Monitoring equity, child death, neonatal mortality and nutrition, improving maternal health, monitoring health systems, monitoring goals- role of health information -- Global policy and funding framework : Influence of international financial institutions, debt relief, poverty reduction and public expenditure management, poverty reduction loans and poverty and social impact assessments, donor coordination's and harmonization, sector wide approaches need to be promoted, other global initiatives impact on health sector