Health inequalities in Brazil: proposed prioritization to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

Intersecting Inequalities and the Sustainable Development Goals: insights from Brazil

Before Sustainable Development Goals (SDG): why Nigeria failed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

World leaders adopted the UN Millennium Declaration in 2000, which committed the nations of the world to a new global partnership, aimed at reducing extreme poverty and other time-bound targets, with a stated deadline of 2015. Fifteen years later, although significant progress has been made worldwide, Nigeria is lagging behind for a variety of reasons, including bureaucracy, poor resource manag...

Research on community-based health workers is needed to achieve the sustainable development goals

Editorials 786 " Leaving no-one behind " is a rallying call to remind us of the need to ensure everybody benefits from the drive to achieve the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development goals (SDGs). Building on the considerable progress made regarding the millennium development goals, there is a need for a comprehensive and coordinated effort to scale up effective interventions. 1 Achieving univ...

Rights Language in the Sustainable Development Agenda: Has Right to Health Discourse and Norms Shaped Health Goals?

While the right to health is increasingly referenced in Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) discussions, its contribution to global health and development remains subject to considerable debate. This hypothesis explores the potential influence of the right to health on the formulation of health goals in 4 major SDG reports. We analyse these reports through a social constructivist lens which view...

Planetary Health as a Central Context to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)