Mental & Public Health
SDG 3 explicitly aims to promote mental health and prevent the abuse of these two legal, widely consumed substances.
What are alcohol and narcotics (or substance/drug abuse)?
Target 3.3 aims to end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and these ancient water-borne or neglected tropical types of conditions.
What are communicable (or infectious) diseases?
The overarching goal of SDG 3 centers on achieving UHC, which stands for this system ensuring everyone gets medical care without financial hardship.
What is Universal Health Coverage?
Target 3.2 aims to end preventable deaths of newborns and children under this age.
What is 5 years old (under-five mortality)?
SDG 3 is designated as this specific number in the United Nations' list of 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
What is Goal Number 3?
This major public health crisis involves accidental collisions, leading SDG 3 to target a 50% reduction in global deaths and injuries from them by 2030.
What are traffic accidents (or road traffic crashes)?
Spread primarily by female Anopheles mosquitoes, this vector-borne disease is a prime target for eradication under SDG 3.
What is malaria?
SDG 3 highlights the recruitment, development, training, and retention of these essential medical professionals, especially in developing nations.
Who are health workers (or doctors, nurses, and healthcare staff)?
Recommended by health organizations globally as the best initial nutrition for a newborn baby.
What is breastfeeding?
The target final year set by the United Nations to achieve the broader 2030 Agenda, including all SDG 3 targets.
What is 2030?
Target 3.4 focuses on reducing premature mortality from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) through prevention, treatment, and promoting this specific branch of health.
What is mental health?
Target 3.3 also targets the elimination of hepatitis, water-borne diseases, and this bacterial infection that primarily affects the lungs.
What is tuberculosis (TB)?
Target 3.b focuses on providing access to affordable versions of these vital chemical substances that treat illnesses.
What are medicines (or vaccines)?
Target 3.1 focuses on drastically reducing this specific global metric measuring the death of mothers during or shortly after pregnancy and childbirth.
What is the maternal mortality ratio?
Target 3.9 aims to substantially reduce the number of deaths and illnesses from hazardous chemicals and air, water, and soil pollution and this kind of environmental degradation.
What is pollution (or contamination)?
Tobacco control is heavily emphasized in SDG 3 through the implementation of this landmark global WHO treaty.
What is the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC)?
Emerging viral threats reminded the world that health systems must combat sudden outbreaks of these types of widespread diseases.
What are pandemics?
Essential to handling sudden health shocks, this term describes the capacity of health systems to prevent, detect, and respond to public health emergencies.
What is health emergency risk management (or early warning / risk reduction)?
Sub-target frameworks under health and zero hunger look closely at stunting and wasting, which are clinical signs of this condition in children.
What is malnutrition?
Target 3.6 specifically focuses on halving global deaths and injuries from these specific types of violent public safety crises.
What are deaths from injuries / homicides / violence? (Note: Target 3.6 is road traffic injuries; violence is covered under target 16.1, but injury prevention broadly overlaps).
This psychological term describes the overall emotional and cognitive state targeted by SDG 3's broader push for "well-being for all at all ages."
What is psychological or mental well-being?
To combat drug resistance, SDG 3 advocates for strong research and development into vaccines and medicines for these types of illnesses that disproportionately affect impoverished regions.
What are neglected tropical diseases?
This financial barrier is explicitly what Universal Health Coverage aims to protect vulnerable populations from experiencing when seeking care.
What is financial hardship (or catastrophic out-of-pocket health spending)?
Target 3.7 ensures universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services, including family planning, information, and the integration of these services into this broader framework.
What are national strategies (or primary health care systems)?
This specialized agency of the United Nations acts as the directing and coordinating authority on international health within the UN system.
What is the World Health Organization (WHO)?