SDG 3+1 Flashcards
What is SDG 1?
No poverty
What is meant by poverty?
Extreme poverty relates to living on less than $2.15 ppp per day and poverty also relates to a deprivation of resources such as food, clean water, shelter and healthcare to meet basic needs and lack of intangible resources such as social inclusion and opportunities for education and decision making.
4 key features of SDG 1
- Reducing the proportion of men, women and children living in poverty by half
- Implementing social protection systems
- Ensuring equal rights and access to essential resources, services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial services, including microfinance
- Building the resilience of those in vulnerable situations and reducing exposure to environmental disasters that result in poverty
Why is the goal important?
Poverty results in significantly high rates of morbidity and premature mortality globally.
Millions of people experiencing poverty are less able to participate in making decisions that affect their lives, and are also more likely to experience discrimination and exclusion.
How does this contribute to global health and wellbeing?
If SDG 1 “no poverty” is achieved then the proportion of the population living in poverty will be reduced. This can mean that those living out of poverty have an adequate access to nutritious foods such as fruit and vegetables to meet their energy needs, thus contributing to adequate energy levels thus improving physical health and wellbeing.
How does this contribute to human development globally?
If SDG 1 ‘No Poverty’ is achieved the proportion of men, women and children living in poverty will be reduced. This can mean that more men and women can have the choice to purchase life-enhancing resources such as medical care and send their children to school thus creating an environment in which men, women and children worldwide are able to have the freedoms to achieve life’s goals and develop to their full potential improving human development globally.
Who is collaborating to achieve this goal?
The legal sector may work to reduce poverty by defending human rights and ensures that individuals are having their human rights upheld, working in conjunction with the health sector to provide timely access to healthcare, a human right. Ensuring that individuals can access healthcare not only improves health outcomes and allows individuals to be able to work and thus earn an income, the legal sector ensures that those in poverty are being given access to social protection measures.
Links between SDG 1 and SDG 3
SDG 1 No Poverty is important in achieving SDG 3 Good health and wellbeing, because eradicating extreme poverty (living on less than US$2.15 per day) means people are more able to afford essential resources such as housing, food, healthcare and clean water and sanitation. This reduces their risk of illness/disease such as communicable diseases (eg waterborne diseases such as diarrhoea), thus ending epidemics of communicable diseases (key feature SDG 3 Good health and wellbeing), contributing to SDG 3.
Links between SDG 3 and SDG 1
SDG 3 Good health and wellbeing is important in achieving SDG 1 No Poverty because ending epidemics of communicable diseases (key feature SDG 3 Good health and wellbeing), will lead to more people experiencing good health and being free from disease/illness, such as malaria leading to more people worldwide being able to go to work, be productive and earn income. Income allows people to purchase resources such as housing, sanitation, food and healthcare, thus eradicating extreme poverty (living on less than US$2.15/day – key feature SDG 1) contributing to SDG 1 No Poverty.
