Transformation in Human Well-Being for Sustainable Development

The current assessment by scientists and experts suggests that no country will be able to reach the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs) by 2030 due to various challenges each state faces. The Global Sustainable Development Report 2023 proposes strategic and effective approaches based on scientific evidence for member states to address the barriers impeding attaining such goals. This report builds on the organizing framework of six entry points for transformation and describes key shifts across the different entry points to accelerate progress toward the SGDs. One of these transformations is health and well-being, in which interventions include universal health care, healthy behaviors, and social determinants. The intermediate output of this transformation is universal health coverage, which requires a publicly financed health system that integrates prevention, therapeutic, and palliative services, integrated information systems, and disease surveillance and control. A whole-of-nation and whole-of-society approach is critical to achieving significant gains and transformation in health, which will eventually contribute to economic and social development