SDG-3, Good Health and Well-being - By Saiman Patel

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SDG-3, Good Health and Well-being

Ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being at all ages is essential to sustainable development. Poor health constitutes suffering and deprivation of the most fundamental kind. Before the pandemic, major progress was made in improving the health of millions of people. Significant strides were made in increasing life expectancy and reducing some of the common killers associated with child and maternal mortality. But more efforts are needed to fully eradicate a wide range of diseases and address many different persistent and emerging health issues. This is to be done through the third goal of sustainable development which is “Good Health and Well-being”.

SDG 3 aspires to ensure health and well-being for all, including a bold commitment to end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other communicable diseases by 2030. It also aims to achieve universal health coverage, and provide access to safe and effective medicines and vaccines for all. It is important because it aims to achieve universal health coverage, that seeks equitable access of healthcare services for all men and women.

 Why did we choose it?

COVID-19 pandemic has devastated health systems globally and threatens the already achieved health outcomes. Most countries, especially poor countries, have insufficient health facilities, medical supplies and health care workers for the surge in demand. The pandemic has shown that in rich and poor countries alike, a health emergency can push people into bankruptcy or poverty. Concerted efforts are required to achieve universal health coverage and sustainable financing aid for health and for that awareness among people is needed.


The COVID-19 crisis had disrupted essential health services around the world. Some services had been suspended to free up resources for COVID-19 patients and to reduce the risk of transmission. If universal health coverage is to become a reality by 2030, growth in the provision and use of essential health services must greatly accelerate.

The SDG 3 can be achieved by many ways such as implementing the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control that seeks to protect present and future generations from the devastating health, social, environmental and economic consequences of tobacco consumption and exposure to tobacco smoke, support research, development and universal access to affordable vaccines and medicines, increase health financing and support health workforce in developing countries, and improve early warning systems for global health risks.

 

Thank You
By Saiman Patel, 9B


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