Health and the Sustainable Development Goals: Challenges for four Pacific countries

SummarySustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG 3) focuses on health and well ‐being. To understand the in‐country monitoring challenges for developing countries of reporting against SDG 3, this research sought published data for the four Pacific countries of Fiji, Papua New Guinea (PNG), the Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu—within a region with well‐documented and signif icant health challenges. This research found that there are limited recent, comprehensive, and comparable data with identified sources against the SDG 3 outcome indicators at an in‐country level. Without such data, there is a risk of relying on data that may be inaccurate because of aggregation, e stimation, and modelling. The results from these data can influence the funding and other resources that could be made available to the Melanesian countries to address health inequities.

Source: The International Journal of Health Planning and Management - November 7, 2018 Category: Health Management Authors: Nina L. Hall, Sophie Matthews, Arabella Hickson, Peter S. Hill Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research