Health and Wellbeing Goal

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Introduction
It was in 2015 when the world when world leaders made a bold step to adopt 17
sustainable development goals (SDGs) that were intended to run for 15 years ending in 2030
(Dahl 2016). The goals focus on the planet, people, peace, prosperity, and partnership. The focus
of this report is on one of the 17 Good Health and Wellbeing, which is the third goal. Even
though people are living healthier than it was in the past decade, so many people still suffer from
preventable diseases, and so many lives that could have been saved are lost prematurely (Buse &
Hawkes 2015). Social, economic, and environmental conditions determine health, and it
connects with topics such as education, poverty, growth, gender equality and many other goals.
Consequently, good health and well-being is an essential condition for sustainable development
(Nunes, Lee, & O'Riordan 2016). Many other goals such as combating HIV/AIDS, reducing
child mortality, malaria and other diseases are directly related to health issues. Well, being is
defined as right living conditions and an outcome that is meaningful to the people and other
sectors around the world. There is a close link between health and wellbeing and in a broader
perspective of sustainable development (Van de Pas et al. 2017). The three are inherently linked
and health is considered precondition indicator and at the same time as a product of flourishing
sustainable development. Health and well-being can be viewed as outcomes and at the same time
preconditions of sustainable development. This paper highlights SDG 3, which is health and
wellbeing in greater length to understand how crucial it is towards the realization of sustainable
development.

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Structure of Governance
The success of any program requires the well-established structure of governance. The
same applies to the triumph of sustainable development goals such as health and wellbeing.
There is a need for well-coordinated cooperation among the multiple players that form the global
health governance (Waage et al. 2015). Governance is expected to be developed from the global
level to specific regions, to countries, and to the local levels. At the higher level, there is the
Division for Sustainable Development Goals (DSDG), which is responsible for providing
leadership and speed up action geared towards implementation of the development goals that
have been agreed at the international level such as the seventeen sustainable goals
(Sustainabledevelopment.un.org, n.d.). There is the secretariat for the High-level Political Forum
on Sustainable Development (HLPF), which is found at the central level in the United Nation
System. After the HLPF, there are the Heads of States and Governments.
The primary UN Secretariat office is known as the Division, and it is responsible for
supporting intergovernmental processes. The Division works towards mobilizing UN system and
many other bodies that support sustainable development plans (Sustainabledevelopment.un.org,
n.d.). Some of the institutions that are essential in the sustainable development and more
precisely health and well-being are the World Health Organization (WHO). The success of the
sustainable development through health and well-being goal depends on the effectiveness of the
Global Health Governance (GHG) players.

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Stakeholders in the Health and Wellbeing Goal
A stakeholder is known as any person or group with interest in a given course of action or
decision. In the case of health and wellbeing, a stakeholder is someone or a group that can be
affected by the achievement of this goal. For instance, the government is one of the stakeholders
as a regulator or a local government (Leal & Brandli, 2016). Businesses are equal stakeholders in
the health and wellbeing as they depend on healthy employees to enhance their productivity and
consumers to purchase their goods and services. The next category of stakeholder is the
communities that rely on good health and well being to go about their daily activities.
Stakeholders are an essential part of the sustainability goals as they can determine the
success or failure of the entire program. Consequently, there is always the need to promote
effective collaboration among the different categories of stakeholders to ensure that the desired
outcome is realized. The involvement of stakeholder in the decision-making and implementation
of the sustainable program such as health and wellbeing helps in improving the quality of
decisions. Engagement process among the stakeholders is considered the process of listening,
exchanging information, and learning from other stakeholders (Leal & Brandli, 2016). For
Division for Sustainable Development
Goals (DSDG),
High-level Political Forum on
Sustainable Development (HLPF)
Heads of States and
Governments