Hello! Welcome to the IBGE Explains Special Series about the Sustainable Development Goals! Now we're going to talk about goal number 3!
You know when you are feeling great and in a good mood, safe and calm? Have ever imaged if we all could feel like that? The third goal has to do with good health and the welfare of all people, i.
e. , to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. You might get a little skeptical, especially knowing that the world’s health is not exactly good.
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. According to the UN, “More than six million children still die before their fifth birthday every year. " and just half of the pregnant women in developing areas get proper medical care.
According to the World Health Association, despite the significant gains in child survival in the last two decades, around nine million children under five die each year of largely treatable and preventable conditions. The good news are: there are solid ways to make sure more people are born and grow up healthy, achieving welfare in their lives. With the construction and monitoring of some important indicators, like maternal and child mortality, vaccine coverage, basic sanitation, among others, public policies, actions and programs can be implemented in order to reach the desired results.
That is why the United Nations has established a deadline and a group of clear and objective goals to be the focus of populations all around the world. Other important allies in the fulfillment of this third goal are prevention and education. Information about substance abuse, sexual health, family planning, traffic education certainly helps citizens make choices that will provide them with better living conditions.
Now imagine a world in which pregnant women's health is seriously taken care of, since a whole generation depends on them; a world that fights for efficient newborn care so that babies can survive; in which the access to good health services and medicines is made easy. “Imagine all the people living for today”, but planning a better future! Have you imagined that?
Now stop imagining and let's get to work! A good start is sharing ideas, like the ones here, making sure, as citizens, that authorities carry out action plans and participating ourselves in some way! !
By the way, we do not lack for work! ! !
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