L27 Sustainable Development Goals Flashcards
What are sustainable development goals?
An agenda of global health and wellbeing, in which all member states address inequities in their own location, with the vision of a global reduction in inequities
-> Made up of 17 goals adopted by UN member states in 2015
How are the SDGs structured?
Each goal has a target and indicators which give information on progress
e.g. Target -> reduce premature mortality from noncommunicable diseases by 1/3 by 2030
Indicator
- > mortality rate attributed to CV disease
- > suicide mortality rate
How do SDGs relate to the Dahlgren and Whitehead model?
Each of the goals act across the 3 levels on the DW model
- Person
- Community
- Environment
What are the domains the SDGs are organised into?
Demographic domain Economic domain Neighbourhood domain Environmental events domain Social and cultural domain
What is the relation between the NZ living standards framework and SDGs?
The LSF wellbeing domains link to each of the SDGs
What is used to inform SDGs?
Big data
What is big data?
- large or complex datasets, which often need terabytes or petabytes of storage
- large amounts of information at a population, regional or local level or span different geographical areas
- combining data from multiple sources to explore population health outcomes
What are the terms used to define the characteristics of big data?
Volume
Velocity
Variety
Veracity
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Variability
Value
Visualisation
Volume
computing capacity required to store and analyse data
Velocity
speed at which that data are created and analysed
Variety
types of data sources available (text, images, social media, administrative)
Veracity
accuracy and credibility of data
Variability
internal consistency of data (reproducible research)
Value
costs required to undertake big data analysis
Visualisation
the use of novel techniques to communicate the patterns that would otherwise be lost in massive tables of data
