Financial protection and the Sustainable Development Goals: fact sheet on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): health targets
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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to transform our world. They are a call to action to end poverty and inequality, protect the planet, and ensure that all people enjoy health, justice and prosperity. It is critical that no one is left behind. In 2015, all the countries in the United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It sets out 17 Goals, which include 169 targets. These wide-ranging and ambitious Goals interconnect. SDG 3 is to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. It has 13 targets measured through 26 indicators. However, a person’s health and well-being are affected not only by disease and treatment, but also by social and economic factors such as housing, poverty and education. Health targets can therefore also be found across the other SDGs. The fact sheets, which include essential facts and figures and identify the challenges, commitments and progress made on each key topic, are a valuable source of information for policy-makers. Financial protection is a core dimension of health system performance and central to universal health coverage. Lack of financial protection in health systems can reduce access to health care, undermine health status, deepen poverty and exacerbate inequality. Countries can strengthen financial protection by redesigning coverage policy to reduce unmet need and financial hardship for the people most in need of protection and, where necessary, supporting changes to coverage policy with adequate public investment in the health system.
