UN SDGs including SDG 3

Question 1

What are the SDGs?

Answer 1

A set of 17 goals set by the United Nations for the health and wellbeing of all people, and the protection of the planet, intended to be achieved by 2030.

Question 2

Who is responsible for the SDGs?

Answer 2

The United Nations (cannot say UN abbreviation when it IS your answer)

Question 3

Name SDG 1

Answer 3

No Poverty

Question 4

Name SDG 2

Answer 4

Zero Hunger

Question 5

Name SDG 3

Answer 5

Good Health and Wellbeing

Question 6

Name SDG 4

Answer 6

Quality Education

Question 7

Name SDG 5

Answer 7

Gender Equality

Question 8

Name SDG 6

Answer 8

Clean Water and Sanitation

Question 9

Name SDG 13

Answer 9

Climate Action

Question 10

What are the objectives of the SDGs?

Answer 10

To end extreme poverty
To fight inequality and injustice
To address climate change

Question 11

Provide 3 rationale for the SDGs

Answer 11

• BECAUSE new goals were needed when Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) ended in 2015
• BECAUSE there was uneven progress across regions and countries e.g. females, rural/remote left behind
• BECAUSE new global challenges had emerged e.g. increasing natural disasters, climate change, mass migration, conflict

Question 12

What is ‘global health’?

Answer 12

The health of populations in a worldwide context beyond the perspectives and concerns of individual countries; an international collaborative approach to achieving equity in health for all people worldwide.

Question 13

Justify the importance of the SDG objective ‘to end extreme poverty’

Answer 13

BECAUSE hundreds of millions of people still live in extreme poverty = struggle to afford basic resources e.g. food, clean water = high number of preventable deaths

Question 14

Justify the importance of the SDG objective ‘to fight inequality and injustice’

Answer 14

BECAUSE millions of people around the world face persecution due to factors e.g. sex (females), religion and race causing conflict and decreasing people’s ability to lead a happy and healthy lives, with their human rights upheld.

Question 15

Justify the importance of the SDG objective ‘to address climate change’

Answer 15

BECAUSE climate change has emerged as one of the most significant issues of our time; all living things rely on the environment for basic resources and climate change (e.g. rising sea levels, changing weather patterns, extreme weather events) have the potential to destroy these resources e.g. crops/food supply.

Question 16

Key feature of SDG 3: R-eerha

Answer 16

Reduce global maternal mortality rates (MMR)

Question 17

Key feature of SDG 3: r-E-erha

Answer 17

End preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years

Question 18

Key feature of SDG 3: re-E-rha

Answer 18

End epidemics of communicable disease (e.g. AIDS, TB, malaria, hepatitis, water-borne disease)

Question 19

Key feature of SDG 3: ree-R-ha

Answer 19

Reduce mortality from non-communicable diseases, and promote mental health and wellbeing

Question 20

Key feature of SDG 3: reer-H-a

Answer 20

Halve global deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents

Question 21

Key feature of SDG 3: reerh-A

Answer 21

Achieve universal health coverage including universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services, and access to affordable essential medicines and vaccinations.

Question 22

What is food security?

Answer 22

When all people can obtain nutritionally adequate, culturally appropriate, safe food regularly through non-emergency sources.​

Question 23

What is ‘gender equality’?

Answer 23

Refers to the situation where women and men have the same level of power and control over aspects of their lives.

Question 24

Reasons for SDG 3

Answer 24

BECAUSE millions people die globally from mainly preventable causes:
communicable diseases e.g. HIV/AIDs and malaria
non-communicable diseases e.g. CVD

BECAUSE MMR high in many developing countries (often due to reduced access to adequate antenatal healthcare).

BECAUSE IMR and U5MR high in many developing countries (could be prevented e.g. vaccinations)

BECAUSE mental health conditions, road trauma and harmful substance use contribute significantly to the global BoD (esp in young people)