Why is this goal important?

• Because ensuring healthy lives is important to building wealthy societies.
• It's also important to decrease the number of deaths, by giving them health care they need.

• Goal progress has increased life expectancy.
• Reduced child and maternal mortality.
• It's fighting against leading communicable diseases.
• 69% of births took place in 2012 with a skilled birth attendant, in 2018, 81% of births took place with a skilled birth attendant.

Targets and Indicators

• Target: By 2030 end deaths of newborns and children under the age 5.

Indicator: Under- age five morality rate.

• Target: End the epidemics of communicable diseases by 2023.

Indicator: Number of people requiring interventions against neglected tropical disease.

• Target: Strengthen the prevention and treatment of substance abuse.

Indicator: Coverage of treatment interventions for substance use disorders.

• Target: Cut the number of deaths and injuries from traffic accidents by 2020.

Indicator: Death rate due to road traffic injuries.

• Target: Have access to sexual and reproductive health care services world-wide by 2030.

Indicator: Adolescent birth rate per 1,000 in their age group.

Glossary

• Prosperous- Success in material terms; flourishing financially
• Epidemic- A widespread occurrence of an infectious diseases
• Preventable- Able to be avoided
• Noncommunicable diseases- Not transmissible directly from one person to another
• Vaccines- A substance used to provide immunity against one or several diseases

Additional Reading

UN Goal 3 Reading List

Sources

“Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being.” The Global Goals, https://www.globalgoals.org/3-good-health-and-well-being.

Robert.Wickramatunga. “United NationsOffice for Outer Space Affairs.” Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being, http://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/space4sdgs/sdg3.html.