National health information systems for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

Community–based primary health care: a core strategy for achieving sustainable development goals for health

Gender, health and the Sustainable Development Goals

Editorials 743 The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) address, among other global concerns: health and well-being for all (goal 3); gender equality (goal 5); and the reduction of inequality within and among countries (goal 10). 1 Gender refers to the socially-constructed characteristics of women and men, in all their diversity, while sex refers to purely biological differences. Gender equality...

Requirements and Platforms of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for Achieving the Goals of Holistic Scientific Map on Health

Requirements and Platforms of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for Achieving the Goals of Holistic Scientific Map on Health Mohammad Dehghani 1, 2, Amir Torab-Miandoab 3, Mohamad Hosein Hayavi Haghighi 4 * 1 Scientific and Educational Center for Health Management of Iran, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran 2 Student Research Committee, Tabriz University of Medi...

Achieving Sustainable Development Goals from a Water Perspective

1 Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 2 Sustainable Water Future Programme, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 3 Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, 4 Engineering Systems Division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, 5 Department of Civil Engineering, The City College of New York, New York, NY, USA, 6 In...

Combating Agricultural Child Labour for National Development: Implications for the Millenium Development Goals in Nigeria

A simmering crisis in the Nigerian agriculture today involves labour and the crisis manifests itself in the degree of labour availability, labour demand and labour productivity. One of the major products of this crisis is the increased participation of children in paid, non-familiar agricultural jobs. Agriculture ranks as one of the three most dangerous work activities, along with mining and co...