The EU's role in promoting health and well-being for all - SDG 3

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🗓️ 13 September 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing crises, progress towards United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (UN SDG) 3 ('ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages') is off track globally, and many of its targets may not be achieved by 2030. Within the EU, measures pertaining to SDG 3 focus on achieving more resilient, accessible and inclusive health systems; improving reproductive, maternal and child health; ending major communicable disease epidemics; and reducing non-communicable and mental disorders. They also focus on lowering behavioural and environmental health risk factors.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the European Parliamentary Research Service podcasts.
0:05.1	In this podcast, we'll talk about ensuring healthy lives and well-being for all, one of the most pressing of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals, and yet one that will most surely be missed by 2030.
0:18.3	So, stay with us, and we'll look at what the EU is doing at home and worldwide
0:22.6	to achieve this crucial objective.
0:28.6	The Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs, were adopted in 2015 as part of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
0:38.3	They cover health and well-being, poverty, hunger, education, gender equality, environment and climate,
0:46.3	strong institutions, peace and justice, among other issues.
0:50.3	Many very closely linked.
0:52.3	Number three in particular aims to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.
0:58.0	Key objectives include reducing mother and child mortality,
1:02.0	ending epidemics of communicable diseases such as AIDS, malaria or tuberculosis,
1:07.0	reducing non-communicable diseases, such as heart diseases or diabetes, and making
1:13.1	sure that everyone has access to quality healthcare, including mental health.
1:18.3	Now because health is inextricably linked to issues such as poverty, equality, water and sanitation
1:24.1	or education, achieving this particular goal requires broad and comprehensive action
1:29.3	worldwide. So how well on track are we?
1:32.3	Well, truth is, quite off track globally. So while there's been progress in combating infectious
1:39.3	diseases such as AIDS or reducing child deaths, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic coupled with Russia's
1:45.5	war on Ukraine and other ongoing crises has disrupted global progress.
1:51.0	And some regions, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, are seriously lagging behind in many targets.
1:57.6	According to the World Health Organization, in 2023, only 15% of health-related SDGs were on track,
2:05.0	and less than a third of them were likely to achieve their 2030 targets.
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