Goal 3: Good health and well-being

Global; Oceania

Policy impact pathways of climate-related urban health vulnerability – A retrospective analysis

Health and Place, Volume 88, July 2024

Climate change health risks in cities can be addressed with vulnerability reduction.

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Health and wellbeing; Climate Change; Global Health, Global

Māori and Pacific families’ experiences and perspectives of cardiovascular care; A qualitative study

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, Volume 48, June 2024

Māori and Pacific people want to take charge of their heart health but face challenges. Participants described important obligations to family, community and tikanga (the culturally correct way of doing things). Participants described times when health care undermined existing responsibilities, their dignity and/or their mana, and they felt excluded from treatment as a result.

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Oceania

Metabolic Steatotic Liver Disease - Chapter 16: Fatty liver and viral hepatitis: Prevalence, risk factors, natural course, pathogenesis, and management

Metabolic Steatotic Liver Disease: Current Knowledge, Therapeutic Treatments, and Future Directions, 2024, Pages 261-275

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health as this chapter will review the aspects of combined viral hepatitis and FLD, including prevalence, risk factors, natural history, pathogenesis, and management to help inform the reader of the complexity of these liver diseases.

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alth and Wellbeing, Global

Resilient Health: Chapter 80 - Transforming mental health for all: Launch of the 2022 World Mental Health Report

Resilient Health: Leveraging Technology and Social Innovations to Transform Healthcare for COVID-19 Recovery and Beyond, 2024, pp 955-971

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by exploring the World Mental Health Report, which discusses the topic of mental health drivers and access to community mental health care in countries across the globe.

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Health and wellbeing; Health and population, Global

Resilient Health: Leveraging Technology and Social Innovations to Transform Healthcare for COVID-19 Recovery and Beyond - Chapter 57: Innovations and well-being of persons with disabilities

Resilient Health: Leveraging Technology and Social Innovations to Transform Healthcare for COVID-19 Recovery and Beyond, 2024, Pages 713-727

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health by emphasizing the importance of overcoming barriers to ensure equitable access to health and well-being for individuals with various impairments, thus promoting inclusive participation in society. It also supports Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by advocating for the development and implementation of digital and assistive technologies that empower people with disabilities, ensuring they have equal opportunities and resources. The call for disability-inclusive policies during the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic further underscores the commitment to achieving social inclusion and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, ensuring that no one is left behind.

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Diversity and inclusion; Health and population; Health and wellbeing, Global

Advances in Child Development and Behavior - Chapter 9: Stop trying to carve Nature at its joints! The importance of a process-based developmental science for understanding neurodiversity

Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 66, 2024, Pages 233-268

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health by advocating for a deeper understanding of neurodevelopmental conditions, such as Down syndrome, through a process-based approach that recognizes the dynamic and interdependent nature of development. By shifting the focus from static classifications to understanding the interactions and processes that contribute to neurodiversity, the paper promotes better health outcomes through more effective interventions and support strategies for individuals with these conditions. Additionally, it supports Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by addressing the limitations of traditional research methods, which can marginalize the experiences of neurodiverse individuals, and by advocating for inclusive research practices that consider diverse perspectives and promote equity in the understanding and treatment of neurodevelopmental conditions.

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Diversity and inclusion; Health and population; Health and wellbeing, Global

The linguistic and metalinguistic abilities of monolingual and bilingual speakers with Prader–Willi syndrome

Lingua, Volume 304, June 2024

This study analyses the linguistic and metalinguistic abilities of individuals with Prader–Willi syndrome (PWS).

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Education; Health and wellbeing, Europe

Resilient Health - Chapter 73: Immersive technology tools and newmedia for Indigenous culture and wellness

Resilient Health, 2024, Pages 863-871

This chapter supports UN SDG3 and discusses how Indigenous communities are grounded in the connections among people and between people and the natural world. Especially important is the wisdom of elders and the knowledge that comes from culturally embedded teachings and how unique technological tools can aid in strengthening self-esteem and well-being and rebuild core cultural relationships.

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Health and wellbeing; health technology, Global

Resilient Health - Chapter 95: The Amazon Hope Medical Programme: A mobile healthcare ship to “Leave No One Behind”

Resilient Health, 2024, Pages 1085-1098

This content addresses SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-being) and SDG-10 (Reduced inequalities), aligns with the World Health Organization’s goal to promote universal health coverage, and aims to help close the health treatment gap that keeps remote, underserved communities from accessing needed quality health services.

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