Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being
What is this Goal?
Goal 3 aims to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages, by reducing mortality rates, combating communicable and non-communicable diseases, achieving universal health coverage, and ensuring access to health services for all. This Goal embodies the right to health as one of the fundamental economic and social rights recognized under international law.
Why does this Goal matter?
Health is fundamental to people’s ability to live, participate, and thrive. Progress toward Goal 3 therefore depends not only on health services, but also on equitable access to care, prevention, protection from avoidable health risks, and the conditions that enable people to enjoy the right to health.
Key figures
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Human rights linkage
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Also on this goal
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