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Health and the Sustainable Development Goals: Challenges for four Pacific countries
Author(s) -
Hall Nina L.,
Matthews Sophie,
Hickson Arabella,
Hill Peter S.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the international journal of health planning and management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.672
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1099-1751
pISSN - 0749-6753
DOI - 10.1002/hpm.2701
Subject(s) - new guinea , developing country , sustainable development , geography , small island developing states , economic growth , political science , environmental resource management , business , economics , climate change , sociology , ecology , ethnology , law , biology
Summary Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG 3) focuses on health and well‐being. To understand the in‐country monitoring challenges for developing countries of reporting against SDG 3, this research sought published data for the four Pacific countries of Fiji, Papua New Guinea (PNG), the Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu—within a region with well‐documented and significant health challenges. This research found that there are limited recent, comprehensive, and comparable data with identified sources against the SDG 3 outcome indicators at an in‐country level. Without such data, there is a risk of relying on data that may be inaccurate because of aggregation, estimation, and modelling. The results from these data can influence the funding and other resources that could be made available to the Melanesian countries to address health inequities.