The sustainable health Agenda in the Americas: Pre-pandemic gaps and 2030 estimates of the SDGs indicators
The preliminary assessments of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic have recently rekindled worries about the feasibility of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Notwithstanding the concern voiced by key academic and political actors, the actual evidence on the current gaps and distance from the...
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| author | Fabrício Silveira Luísa da Matta Machado Fernandes Rômulo Paes-Sousa |
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| description | The preliminary assessments of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic have recently rekindled worries about the feasibility of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Notwithstanding the concern voiced by key academic and political actors, the actual evidence on the current gaps and distance from the goals is still very much unknown. This study estimates the global evolution curves for each health-related SDGs indicator in the World Health Organization’s SDGs platform. These curves synthesize the transnational trends at play in the evolution of each health-related topic, offering an average global counterfactual to compare with the actual information for each country. The empirical investigation focuses on the American continent, highlighting the health gaps before the COVID-19 outbreak in 33 countries of the region. The study also extrapolates these trends to predict the evolution of the health-related SDGs in each of these countries over the next decade using as the baseline scenario the International Monetary Fund’s economic forecasts. The results show a widening gap in the region, associated with the differential economic capacity of these countries. Some bottlenecks are shared by most countries in the continent, especially in the themes of violence and infectious diseases. The latter is likely to improve faster than other health themes in the next decade, whereas improvements in the theme non-communicable diseases can be more challenging. The findings provide much needed comparative evidence to guide the countries in the region to set priorities and concentrate efforts to accelerate progress in the health-related SDGs. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9c9445b2f902469c89484f0cb739afbf2022-12-22T01:00:47ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032022-01-01176The sustainable health Agenda in the Americas: Pre-pandemic gaps and 2030 estimates of the SDGs indicatorsFabrício SilveiraLuísa da Matta Machado FernandesRômulo Paes-SousaThe preliminary assessments of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic have recently rekindled worries about the feasibility of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Notwithstanding the concern voiced by key academic and political actors, the actual evidence on the current gaps and distance from the goals is still very much unknown. This study estimates the global evolution curves for each health-related SDGs indicator in the World Health Organization’s SDGs platform. These curves synthesize the transnational trends at play in the evolution of each health-related topic, offering an average global counterfactual to compare with the actual information for each country. The empirical investigation focuses on the American continent, highlighting the health gaps before the COVID-19 outbreak in 33 countries of the region. The study also extrapolates these trends to predict the evolution of the health-related SDGs in each of these countries over the next decade using as the baseline scenario the International Monetary Fund’s economic forecasts. The results show a widening gap in the region, associated with the differential economic capacity of these countries. Some bottlenecks are shared by most countries in the continent, especially in the themes of violence and infectious diseases. The latter is likely to improve faster than other health themes in the next decade, whereas improvements in the theme non-communicable diseases can be more challenging. The findings provide much needed comparative evidence to guide the countries in the region to set priorities and concentrate efforts to accelerate progress in the health-related SDGs.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9212141/?tool=EBI |
| spellingShingle | Fabrício Silveira Luísa da Matta Machado Fernandes Rômulo Paes-Sousa The sustainable health Agenda in the Americas: Pre-pandemic gaps and 2030 estimates of the SDGs indicators PLoS ONE |
| title | The sustainable health Agenda in the Americas: Pre-pandemic gaps and 2030 estimates of the SDGs indicators |
| title_full | The sustainable health Agenda in the Americas: Pre-pandemic gaps and 2030 estimates of the SDGs indicators |
| title_fullStr | The sustainable health Agenda in the Americas: Pre-pandemic gaps and 2030 estimates of the SDGs indicators |
| title_full_unstemmed | The sustainable health Agenda in the Americas: Pre-pandemic gaps and 2030 estimates of the SDGs indicators |
| title_short | The sustainable health Agenda in the Americas: Pre-pandemic gaps and 2030 estimates of the SDGs indicators |
| title_sort | sustainable health agenda in the americas pre pandemic gaps and 2030 estimates of the sdgs indicators |
| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9212141/?tool=EBI |
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