Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Division for Inclusive Social Development (DISD)

The World Health Organization (WHO) welcomes the launch of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and commits to collaborate with partners all over the world to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

SDG 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages, profiles health as a desirable outcome in its own right. Importantly, however, health is also presented as an input to other goals, and a reliable measure of how well sustainable development is progressing in general.

There is a recognition of the need to focus not only on ensuring that people survive, but that they thrive as well. WHO particularly welcomes the inclusion of universal health coverage because the universal health coverage expresses the very spirit of the new development agenda.

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