Reflecting on Week 3
At the start of this week, we asked you to think about SDG 11 and SDG 6, and which would be the most difficult to achieve. Has your thinking changed? …
Course: Achieving Sustainable Development
What Is Antibiotic Resistance (AMR) and How Does It Spread?
“If we fail to act, we are looking at an almost unthinkable scenario where antibiotics no longer work and we are cast back into the dark ages of medicine.” -David …
The Future of Healthcare: Precision Medicine
Note: There are some graphic images in this article which some learners may find disturbing. In the future, we hope to use scientific advances to develop new, more targeted treatments …
The future of healthcare
In this video, Sarah talks with a panel of experts about the future of healthcare. She asks what they think will be the biggest changes and challenges to healthcare in …
Child and Maternal Health: Community Workers and Technology
In this article, we are going to explore the AIM Health project in Africa which uses medicine and public health supported by mobile devices (MHealth) and Community Health Workers (CHW) …
Challenges to reproductive, maternal and child health
“Children are our future, and their mothers are its guardians.” -Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General 1997–2006 We have seen in previous steps how the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were created …
Malnutrition and HIV
One of the reasons that malnutrition is such a big public health problem is that it interacts with other health challenges. One of these is the HIV epidemic. Since the …
Food insecurity: implications for health in Uganda
In this video, Martina explains the challenge of food insecurity that rural communities in Uganda face. For example, in Karimoja 20% of households were food insecure and a further 38% …
Obesity: not just a disease of the rich
Ross has explored the key challenge of obesity for achieving SDG 3, and how this is not only a problem for developed countries. Take a look at this visualisation from …
Food and Nutrition for Health: Challenges of Malnutrition
We have often heard of the phrase “food as the first medicine”. In other words, food and adequate nutrition are the foundations for so much of our health. Feeding the …
SDG 3 – Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
“At present, only about a half of the world’s people have access to healthcare without impoverishment. This needs to improve dramatically.” – Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, newly elected Director-General of the …
Conflict and healthcare: a complex challenge
Last week we looked at the challenges to achieving peace, and as Martina has explored in the video, the links between healthcare and conflict are complex and inseparable. This week, …
Next week – Water and cities
Well done for getting to the end of Week 2. We hope you have enjoyed our videos and articles on sustainability and health, and have reflected on the major challenges …
Critical perspectives on SDG 3
This week we have seen how health is fundamental to the achievement of sustainable development. We have also explored how many of the other SDGs are intertwined with SDG 3. …
Homicide to genocide – why violence threatens sustainable development
In this video, Gillian talks about why forms of violence are challenges to sustainable development. She presents the view that SDG 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions is the most …
