Abstract
In this period of extreme changes in our society, issues related to the health and well-being of citizens are considered essential for the future of a united and prosperous Europe. Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at EU level by 2030 requires hard work done in a transformative way in order to implement a set of coherent, evidence-informed policies that address health, well-being and all their determinants throughout the course of life and across all sectors of government and society. The objective of this paper is to assess the stage of fulfillment of all SDG targets in relation to health and well-being at EU level, based on the current trend of each indicator, for each EU member country. Based on the Eurostat SDG data set for 2007–2018, the individual trends were forecast using the AAA (Holt-Winters) version of the exponential smoothing (ETS) algorithm. The research results are surprising, on the one hand showing the possibility that some targets will be reached, but also indicating that a large percentage of targets will not be reached if the current trend is continued, especially due to disruptive change generated by the current pandemic. There is a need to increase the involvement of all member states, but also ensure a deeper involvement at the level of EU institutions, to provide full support for meeting the targets proposed by the 2030 Agenda, ensuring prosperity and health for all European citizens, and becoming a model for all the states of the world.
Highlights
The planet, people, prosperity and the complex and specific problems they face today generate permanent concerns, different points of view, innovative actions in order to change and develop a sustainable society for the future
To investigate the extent to which EU countries could achieve the objectives assumed by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, we considered that it would be relevant for the scientific community and beyond to carry out an analysis of the forecasts for achieving the assumed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), based on the set of indicators used at EU level and selecting those indicators for which Eurostat provides relevant information [44]
Even though the EU average has been rapidly declining in recent years, showing hope that the target can be reached in the coming years, the current situation generated by the Covid-19 pandemic at EU level leads us to believe that forecasts will be more pessimistic and the figures will approach those predicted following the research
Summary
The planet, people, prosperity and the complex and specific problems they face today generate permanent concerns, different points of view, innovative actions in order to change and develop a sustainable society for the future In these circumstances of changing and redefining the way society develops, we identify another way of action, with the involvement of governments, civil society, multinational corporations, public and private actors, NGOs and other associations in a “global partnership”, with common targets (the Sustainable Development Goals) for the purpose of sustainable development from the point of view of the environment, society and the economy. The objectives of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a good opportunity to redefine and recreate the process of sustainable development of society for two main reasons First of all, they include areas that can be analyzed, researched, redefined and innovated and that can be “mainstream” for all those directly and indirectly involved. The fact that the UN and its member countries are committed to achieving the SDGs by 2030 underlined the urgency and need for quantitative and qualitative research so that their results stimulate the need to implement and act urgently in all economic, political and social sectors
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