Current situation and progress toward the 2030 health-related Sustainable Development Goals in China: A systematic analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by all United Nations (UN) member states in 2015, established a set of bold and ambitious health-related targets to achieve by 2030. Understanding China's progress toward these targets is critical to improving population health for its 1.4 billion people.

Methods and findings

We used estimates from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study 2016, national surveys and surveillance data from China, and qualitative data. Twenty-eight of the 37 indicators included in the GBD Study 2016 were analyzed. We developed an attainment index of health-related SDGs, a scale of 0-100 based on the values of indicators. The projection model is adjusted based on the one developed by the GBD Study 2016 SDG collaborators. We found that

SUBMITTER: Chen S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7340487 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature