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SDG 3: a Missed Opportunity to Transform Understandings and Monitoring of Health, Well-Being and Development?

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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) initiative provided a window of opportunity to transform understandings of health and well-being to monitor progress in these areas across the globe between 2015 and 2030. SDG 3 on health and well-being is used to illustrate how this opportunity was missed. Despite widespread global consultations with stakeholders and a global climate of more holistic approaches to health and well-being, SDG3, along with many of the other SDGs, remains stuck in traditional twentieth century discourse about measures of progress. The reasons for this inertia and possible initiatives which might act as a catalyst for change are explored.

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  • Elizabeth Eckermann, 2018. "SDG 3: a Missed Opportunity to Transform Understandings and Monitoring of Health, Well-Being and Development?," Applied Research in Quality of Life, Springer;International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies, vol. 13(2), pages 261-272, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:ariqol:v:13:y:2018:i:2:d:10.1007_s11482-017-9527-6
    DOI: 10.1007/s11482-017-9527-6
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