The sustainable health Agenda in the Americas: Pre-pandemic gaps and 2030 estimates of the SDGs indicators.

ABSTRACT: 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

SUBMITTER: Silveira F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9212141 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature