Goal 3. Health & well-being

ICTs have the potential to deliver benefits across the global healthcare ecosystem. Patients can contact health care services remotely regardless of their proximity to a healthcare centre. Health care workers can, for example, learn and prepare for disease outbreaks, identify patient symptoms, follow established treatment protocols, perform remote diagnostics, access expert support and so on. Big Data analytics can help produce snapshots, analyze trends, and make projections about disease outbreaks, health service usage, and patient knowledge, attitudes, and practices.

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Case study – Italy

The Open Hospital project aims to help provide access to quality essential health care services as well as essential medicines and vaccines for all. Open Hospital is open source, free software provided by Informatici Senza Frontiere for hospitals’ daily management in developing countries. It is currently installed and used in several hospitals in Africa and the Middle East, and a new collaboration agreement between ISF and some major NGOs is expected to promote the diffusion of the software in many other African hospitals. Open Hospital is used also in Italy, for the management of specific needs including providing medical services for immigrants without residence permits or health cards.
Open Hospital demonstrates how ICTs can contribute towards achieving better patient management, especially in places where it can be difficult to manage personal data, or retrieve patient data (for example in a different hospital department), as well as allowing medical specialists to follow patients’ medical history, and to recommend appropriate courses of treatment..
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"There can be no real growth without healthy populations. No sustainable development without tackling disease and malnutrition"

Gro Harlem Brundtland

former Director-General, World Health Organization (WHO)

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Goal & Targets SDG-3

The biggest preventable causes of death for children under five are pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria. Between them, they claim 16,000 lives every day.¹

¹ Source: United Nations, July 2015, as reported by The Guardian

Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

3.1 By 2030, reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births.
3.2 By 2030, end preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years of age, with all countries aiming to reduce neonatal mortality to at least as low as 12 per 1,000 live births and under-5 mortality to at least as low as 25 per 1,000 live births.
3.3 By 2030, end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases and combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases and other communicable diseases.
3.4 By 2030, reduce by one third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases through prevention and treatment and promote mental health and well-being.
3.5 Strengthen the prevention and treatment of substance abuse, including narcotic drug abuse and harmful use of alcohol.
3.6 By 2020, halve the number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents.
3.7 By 2030, ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services, including for family planning, information and education, and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programmes.
3.8 Achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all.
3.9 By 2030, substantially reduce the number of deaths and illnesses from hazardous chemicals and air, water and soil pollution and contamination.
3.a Strengthen the implementation of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in all countries, as appropriate.
3.b Support the research and development of vaccines and medicines for the communicable and non-communicable diseases that primarily affect developing countries, provide access to affordable essential medicines and vaccines, in accordance with the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health, which affirms the right of developing countries to use to the full the provisions in the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights regarding flexibilities to protect public health, and, in particular, provide access to medicines for all.
3.c Substantially increase health financing and the recruitment, development, training and retention of the health workforce in developing countries, especially in least developed countries and small island developing States.
3.d Strengthen the capacity of all countries, in particular developing countries, for early warning, risk reduction and management of national and global health risks.