Critical Analysis of the Sustainable Goals (SDGs): Global Health

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
The sustainable development goals (SDGs) are successors of the Millennium development goals (MDGs). Initiated in 2016, SDGs are a global reference for UN members in making political and development plans till 2030 (Ford, 2015). Even after the set deadline for MDG, many people still live below the poverty level, lack food to eat, there are still maternal deaths during childbirth, and many are still fighting for their rights (Ford, 2015). This article aims to summarize three SDGs, analyze and discuss their impact on global health.
Summary of three of the SDGs
The UN has developed 17 Sustainable Development Goals with 169 targets. Three of the goals include:
End poverty in all its forms everywhere
Ending poverty and all its forms everywhere is the first SDG. The goal’s targets focus on people living below the poverty level of $1.25 a day. It aims at covering the poor and vulnerable through the provision of balanced access to economic resources, property ownership, and access to new technologies and financial services. By 2030, the SDG postulates that there will be a significant mobilization of resources through development programs, especially in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) that will establish measures to eliminate poverty (UN, 2016). However, special efforts should be made to isolate interactions with other SDGs to avoid potential duplication of activities in poverty management and environmental conservation (ICSU & ISSC, 2015). Despite the fact that the objectives are reasonable for poverty eradication, advance specifications are needed to ensure joint efforts of provision of basic income and social protection, and justifiable means of revenue creation and dissemination, and also employment and insurance (ICSU & ISSC, 2015).
End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
The second SDG entails achieving zero hunger around the member states. The goal aims at ending hunger by ensuring that all people have access to safe and nutritious food all year round. By 2025, the goal targets at achieving the internationally agreed objectives of ending malnutrition challenges in children under five years of age. Additionally, nutritional requirements among young girls, expectant mothers, and feeding mothers as well as the elderly will be addressed. On agriculture, the goal is focused on providing equal access to land, inputs, knowledge and opportunities for value addition to small-scale food producers in the effort of increasing productivity and income by 2030. Also, the goal aims at achieving and maintaining genetic diversity in domesticated animals and crop seeds at diversified national, regional and international plant banks. The goal also provides for cooperative agricultural research and extension services and elimination of trade restrictions in the world agricultural market. Limiting extreme food price volatility will be achieved by adaptation of measures that will ensure the implementation of measures to monitor commodity markets and their derivatives with the provision of timely market information (UN, 2016). The achievement of this goa...