SDG 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
Updated: 30 September 2022
Manuela Leporesi
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- Good road and rail links enable people to travel to access health services. Health services can also reach communities that are more remote
- Innovation and industry make money available so that it can be invested in health
- Innovation and industry provide new ideas and technologies for use by health workers
- There are human rights related to industry, innovation and infrastructure, for example:
- Right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its use
- Right to access to information
- Right to adequate housing
- Equal rights of women to financial credit and to infrastructure in a rural area, such as water and sanitation and good transport
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All →Report of the 11th Meeting of the WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group of Experts for Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Nutrition, 10–12 June 2025
Accelerating progress towards health-related Sustainable Development Goals
Framework to implement a life course approach in practice
Joint evaluation of the Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All: Report
Reports
All →Joint evaluation of the Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All (SDG3-GAP): Management response
Joint Evaluability Assessment of the Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All (2020): Management response update
Joint Evaluability Assessment of the Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All (2020): Management response
Joint Evaluability Assessment of the Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All (2020): Report
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