SDG 3

Name and number

SDG 3 Good health and wellbeing: Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all ages

Explain it

Aims to promote physical and mental health and wellbeing, and extended life expectancy by addressing the main causes of morbidity and mortality in low, middle, and high income countries.

Key Features

Maternal and child health and wellbeing
-Reduce maternal mortality
-End preventable deaths of newborns and children under five

Communicable diseases
-End epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and neglected tropical diseases (NTDs)
-Combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases, and other communicable diseases

Non-communicable diseases
-Reduce non-communicable diseases
-Promote mental health and wellbeing
-Reduce substance abuse (drugs and alcohol)
-Reduce road traffic accidents
-Reduce deaths and illnesses from hazardous chemicals and pollution (air, waiter, and soil)

Outcome: Reduce maternal mortality

Achieve universal health coverage, including quality health care, essential medicines, and vaccines.

Outcome: End preventable deaths of newborns and children under five

Access to sexual and reproductive healthcare services

Outcome: End epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases (NTDs).

Have systems in place for early warning, prevention and management of risks to health and wellbeing

Outcome: Address hepatitis, waterborne diseases and other commonable diseases

Support the research and development of vaccines and medicines for communicable and non-communicable diseases

Outcome: Reduce non-communicable diseases and promote mental health and wellbeing, reduce road traffic accidents

Support investments in health services and train medical workers to expend access to health care

Outcomes: Reduce death and illnesses from hazardous chemicals and air, water and soil pollution and contamination

-Implement the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control

-Strengthen prevention and treatment services for substance abuse

Outcome: Reduce substance abuse, including drugs and alcohol

Strengthen prevention and treatment services for substance abuse

ER DATA

-84% of births were attended by skilled personal between 2015 and 2021

-Adolescent pregnancy has declined