Connected Health Insights for Sustainable Development: Integrating, AI and Data-Driven Solutions

Shama Siddiqui & Anwar Ahmed Khan & Muazzam Ali Khan Khattak & Raazia Sosan

Language: English

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: Jan 10, 2025

Description:

Achieving sustainability is a dream of everyone. People plan for sustainability through setting personal goals, milestones. However, addressing global challenges requires a more complex approach to developing goals and milestones. The United Nations (UN) has tackled this complexity by creating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a comprehensive framework designed to address the world’s most pressing issues. The 17 goals cover a broad spectrum of areas, including poverty, inequality, climate change, education, environment, and health, with SDG 3 specifically focusing on “Good Health and Well-Being” for all at all ages. The UN expects nations and individuals to work collaboratively toward achieving the SDGs by 2030. This requires a multifaceted approach where governments, private sectors, civil societies, and individuals must play critical roles.

Government all across the globe are striving to contribute to SDGs by taking diverse approaches. Various fundings have been made available, targeting specific SDGs and encouraging individuals and organization to pitch in their efforts. SDG 3 has been a key target area particularly for developing and under-developed regions where mostly lack of access to healthcare facilities is a major cause of high mortality. Some of the strategies developed to achieve SDG 3 include developing health infrastructure, investing in health workforce, managing nutrition and food security, developing/revising/implementing health policies and regulations, conducting public health programs, ensuring environmental health, and encouraging research and development. Using advanced information technology has also become a global norm for improving healthcare access, creating personalized healthcare service, and managing population health.