SUSTAINABLE

DEVELOPMENT
GOAL 3 :
Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being
for all at ages
DEFINITION

Health and well-being can be described as

achieving and maintaining physical fitness and
mental stability. It is also the result of a
combination of physical, social, intellectual and
emotional factors.
TARGETS

Maternal and Young Child Health

 Five billion people around the world do not have

access to safe surgery.

 People do not have access to safe, viable

transportation and transportation routes to get to
medical clinics.

 With access to medical clinics via safe roadways, less

women would die in childbirth and more children
would survive childhood.
Reducing deaths from diseases (communicable and non-
communicable)

 Elimination of epidemics of AIDS,

tuberculosis, malaria, neglected tropical
diseases and control of hepatitis,
waterborne diseases and other infectious
diseases ,prevention and treatment and
promoting mental health and well-being
and vaccinating people and treating them
will reduce the number of deaths resulting
from these diseases.
• Strengthen the prevention and treatment of • 1.35 million people globally die each
substance abuse, including drug abuse and harmful
year in traffic accidents.
use of alcohol.
• By investing in road infrastructure, a
• Coverage of treatment interventions
country can see a reduction of traffic
(pharmacological, psychological, rehabilitation and
fatalities by upwards of 90%.
aftercare services) for substance use disorders
 Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health  Achieving universal health coverage, including protection
care services, including family planning services, from financial risks, access to quality basic health care
information and education, and integrate reproductive services and universal access to quality, effective and
health into national strategies and programmes affordable medicines and vaccines
Road Dust Pollution

 Paved roadways can help decrease road dust that is kicked up

from unpaved roadways.

 Road dust can aggravate asthma and cause respiratory

problems."

 Road dust can cause people to breath in toxins like lead,

aluminum, and zinc
 Means of implementation for the targets

A- Tabacco control • Strengthen the implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in all
countries, as appropriate.

• Support research and development in vaccines and medicines for infectious and non-communicable
diseases.
B- Medicines and
vaccines • Provide access to essential medicines and affordable vaccines

• Substantially increase health financing and the recruitment, development, training and retention of
C- Health financing
the health workforce in developing countries, especially in least developed countries .
And workforce

• Strengthen the capacity of all countries, in particular developing countries, for early warning, risk
D- Emergency reduction and management of national and global health risks.
preparedness
 HEALTH &WELL-BEING GLOBAL
PROGRESS FROM 2000 TO 2017

DEATHS AMONG
CHILDREN UNDER 5 TUBERCULOSIS
DOPPED FROM 9.8 INCIDENCE
MILLION TO 5.4 DECLINED BY
MILLION 21%

VACCINATION INCIDENCE OF HIV

RESULTS IN AN IN SUB-SAHARAN
80% DROP IN AFRICIA DECLINED
MEASLES DEATH BY 37%
 SOURCES

https://textilesforsdgs.org/sdgs/goals/3-good-health-and-well-be
ing/
https://www.globalgoals.org/3-good-health-and-well-being
https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/health/