Recommendations towards an integrated, life-course approach to women’s health in the post-2015 agenda

Recommendations towards an integrated, life-course approach to women's health in the post-2015 agenda.

Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) – primarily cancer, cardiovascular disease , diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases – represent a major health, social, and economic burden that affects women globally, yet their impact on women in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) has not been fully recognized. 1 NCDs cause premature death and disability among women of all socioeconomic strata worldwide...

Urban health in the post-2015 agenda.

With the rapid rate of urbanisation in developing countries across Asia and Africa, about 70% of the world’s population is expected to be living in cities by 2050. In their density and complexity, cities often drive national economies, provide a rich array of specialised services, ideas and innovation, with diverse social and cultural populations. However, with an estimated one billion people l...

Sustaining Health for Wealth: Perspectives for the Post-2015 Agenda; Comment on “Improving the World’s Health Through the Post-2015 Development Agenda: Perspectives From Rwanda”

The sustainable development goals (SDGs) offer a unique opportunity for policy-makers to build on the millennium development goals (MDGs) by adopting more sustainable approaches to addressing global development challenges. The delivery of health services is of particular concern. Most African countries are unlikely to achieve the health MDGs, however, significant progress has been made particul...

Health and the post-2015 development agenda.

[Health in the post-2015 United Nations Development Agenda].

This paper evaluates health as a Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) in the context of the Post-2015 Development Agenda, between 2012 and 2014. Health was part of the debate since the Millennium Summit and the MDGs (2000), and it also appears in the documents discussing the Post-2015 Agenda, from the Rio+20 to the Open Working Group (OWG), whose report was submitted to the General Assembly of th...