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Good Health and Well-Being
How bad is it?
According to the United Nations during the past few years due to the Covid-19 pandemic:
92% of countries had their health services disrupted
Progress on universal health coverage was halted
Global life expectancy went down
Immunization coverage dropped for the first time in 10 years
The prevalence of anxiety and depression went up
Deaths from tuberculosis and malaria rose
Currently, 63% of all deaths worldwide stem from NCDs – chiefly cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes
Additionally, in 2022, World Health Organization claimed that up to 3.5 billion people lack access to the health services they need
The SDG Goal:
The main aims of this SDG goal are to:
Eliminate maternal mortality and preventable deaths of newborns and young children.
Eliminate communicable diseases like AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, as well as deaths from non-communicable diseases, substance abuse and mental illness.
Ensure universal health coverage, and especially access to reproductive health services.
Minimize the health impacts of the environment, including hazardous chemicals, pollution and climate change.
What can be done?
Increase focus for mental health issues
Introduce policies that reduce barriers and increase access to healthcare
Tackle environmental issues to improve health because storms, flooding, droughts, and air pollution make it easier for diseases to spread across large groups of people
Improve refugee and migrant health policies
Provide more education on the prevention of NCDs and encourage lifestyle changes such as poor diets, inactivity, tobacco use, and alcohol consumption
Provide loans to fund education needed to become a healthcare worker
Will it get any worse
The pandemic put an end to and reversed almost two decades of efforts to make health coverage universal. Now we are facing:
A spike in communicable diseases, particularly in malaria deaths in sub-Saharan Africa due to the pandemic diverting resources
Healthcare inflation will increase medical costs by “double-digits rates”
A nursing shortage, with a recent study, indicates 90% of nurses are considering exiting the profession in the next few years.
A burnout crisis from physicians and hospital-based doctors
Global mental health is expected to worsen