The relationship of health with the sustainable development goals

Abstract

By 2050 the planet will face several and complex challenges: feeding 9 billion people, creating homes for 2 billion new urban residents, providing universal access to health services, clean water, affordable and renewable energy, basic sanitation, reducing poverty, reducing the consumption of goods and natural resources, reduce global emissions of greenhouse gases, so that the future becomes sustainable. Human health and disease are determined by multiple and complex factors. Threats to health are at the human-animal-ecosystems interface. Zoonoses pose risks and costs to public health and if the environment is contaminated, degraded and polluted, more diseases will be transmitted. This article specifically illustrates the importance of diverse paradigms to actual and potential threats to health. More specifically, it intends to discuss the specific aspects of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) No 3 (Health and Well-Being) and its correlations with the other SDG`s and implications with the multiple dimensions of sustainability. For this, a search was carried out in the databases, SciELO, PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science; and websites with magazines, ScienceDirect, CAPES Journal Portal. The importance of health is highlighted in the Magna Cartas of the countries, being considered a priority for human dignity. All areas of health are somehow linked to all SDGs, but in this text SDGs 1, 2, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 13 were highlighted. Health is an SDG that is intensive in scientific research and that it needs public policies. Poor quality in health directly affects the sustainability of the environment.