The Sustainable Development Goals

 The world progress on Good Health and Well-being: 1.       COVID-19 directly and indirectly led to the deaths of nearly 15 million people in the first two years of the pandemic. To effectively curb the spread of COVID-19 and prevent tens of thousands of additional deaths, it is critical to ensure equitable access to safe and effective vaccines. WHO has called for 70 per cent of people in all countries to receive vaccinations by mid-2022. That said, global vaccine distribution is far from equitable. As of May 2022, only around 17 per cent of people in low-income countries had received at least one dose of a vaccine, compared with more than 80 per cent in high-income countries. For everyone’s health, it is imperative that all countries and relevant manufacturers suspend patents, prioritize vaccine supply to COVAX, and create the conditions necessary for the local production of tests, vaccines and treatments.   2.       Progress has been made in maternal and child health, but glari

  Our goal is good health and well-being. Goal 3 aims to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all, at all ages. Health and well-being are important at every stage of one’s life, starting from the beginning. This goal addresses all major health priorities: reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health; communicable and non-communicable diseases; universal health coverage; and access for all to safe, effective, quality and affordable medicines and vaccines. How does well-being relate to sustainability? The World Health Organization coined the most well-known modern definition of health, which states: “Health is a condition of complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” Sustainable well-being is achieved when improving individual well-being is correlated with improving the well-being of other members of society and the natural environment. Importance of good health and well-being: 1. Benefits You in Living

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What Does Sustainable Development Mean?  " Sustainable development is concerned with the development of a society where the costs of development are not transferred to future generations, or at least an attempt is made to compensate for such costs" (Pearce, 1993). What Are the Three Pillars of Sustainability? The three pillars of sustainability are the environment, society, and the economy, those were first mentioned in the  Brundtland report in 1987 . Sustainable development is built on top of those 3 pillars because it can be achieved only when environmental protection, social equity, and economic profitability coexist without one area taking over any of the others.     The  environmental pillar  of sustainable development involves regulations, laws, and other tools used to deal with  environmental facts  and issues such as the management of land, freshwater, oceans, forests, air, natural resources, and wildlife.     The  social pillar  refers to initiatives, public policie