Good Health and Well-Being - The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3

The UN explains: "Significant strides have been made in increasing life expectancy and reducing some of the common killers responsible for the child and maternal mortality.

Major progress has also been made on increasing access to clean water and sanitation, reducing malaria, tuberculosis, polio, and the spread of HIV/AIDS.

However, many more efforts are needed to control a wide range of diseases and address many different persistent and emerging health issues."


The UN has defined 13 Targets and 28 Indicators for SDG 3. Targets specify the goals and Indicators represent the metrics by which the world aims to track whether these Targets are achieved. Below we quote the original text of all Targets and show the data on the agreed Indicators.

How is the world doing on this goal?

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Target 3.C: Increase health financing and support health workforce in developing countries

UN definition: "Substantially increase health financing and the recruitment, development, training, and retention of the health the workforce in developing countries, especially in the least developed countries and small island developing states."

Health worker density - SDG Indicator 3.C.1

Definition: Indicator 3.C.1 is "Health worker density and distribution".



Health worker density is the size of the health workforce per 1,000 people. It is measured here based on the density of physicians, surgeons, nurses and midwives, dentistry, and pharmaceutical personnel.

Goal: By 2030 "Substantially increase health financing and the recruitment, development, training, and retention of the health workforce in developing countries".

Target 3.D: Improve early warning systems for global health risks

UN definition: "Strengthen the capacity of all countries, in particular developing countries, for early warning, risk reduction and management of national and global health risks."

Health emergency preparedness - SDG Indicator 3.D.1

Definition: Indicator 3.D.1 is the "International Health Regulations (IHR) capacity and health emergency preparedness".



The IHR Core capacity index is measured as the percentage of attributes of 13 core capacities that have been attained at a specific point in time. The 13 core capacities are (1) National legislation, policy, and financing; (2) Coordination and National Focal Point communications; (3) Surveillance; (4) Response; (5) Preparedness; (6) Risk communication; (7) Human resources; (8) Laboratory; (9) Points of entry; (10) Zoonotic events; (11) Food safety; (12) Chemical events; (13) Radionuclear emergencies.

Goal: By 2030 "Strengthen the capacity of all countries, in particular developing countries, for early warning, risk reduction and management of national and global health risks".

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