SDG 3 - Good Health by Bisleen Kaur

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SDG 3 - Good Health

Ø What is SDG 3?

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development provides a shared plan for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. It is adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015. It essentially carries the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries, developed and developing, in a global partnership. Of them, (SDG 3) Sustainable Development Goal 3, seeks to ensure health and wellbeing for all, at every stage of life.

Ø Importance of SDG 3

Health is foundational to human development. All people, regardless of their social status, consistently rank good health as a top priority, and healthy people are critical to sustaining societies.

Over the years, significant steps have been taken to increase life expectancy and reduce some of the common killers associated with child and maternal mortality.

Despite global progress, an increasing proportion of child deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia. Pregnancy and childbirth also pose particular risks. Every day, 830 women die from preventable causes related to pregnancy. That amounted to about 303,000 women worldwide in 2015.

Although, globally the occurrence of major infectious diseases including HIV/AIDS, malaria, and TB has declined since 2000, the challenge of these and new pandemics remains in many regions of the world. The world is currently facing a global health crisis unlike any other — COVID-19 which  is causing human suffering, threatening the global economy and upending the lives of billions of people around the globe.

Immense progress has been made all over the world in finding advanced treatments, vaccines, and technologies for healthcare, but affordable access to healthcare universally still remains a complication.

Ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being at all ages is essential to sustainable development. Therefore, by analysing all these challenges and to overcome them, the 3rd Goal of SDG is brought into play.

The Goal addresses all major health priorities, including reproductive, maternal and child health; communicable, non-communicable and environmental diseases; universal health coverage; and access for all to safe, effective, quality and affordable medicines and vaccines. It also calls for more research and development, increased health financing, and strengthened capacity of all countries in health risk reduction and management.

This goal aims to achieve a number of targets which cover and focus on various aspects of healthy life and healthy lifestyle. Therefore, SDG 3 aims to prevent needless suffering from preventable diseases and premature death by focussing on key targets that boost the health of a country's overall population

Bisleen Kaur (IX-B)

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