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SDG Framework and Human Development Dimensions

SDG 3 Good health and wellbeing is the goal the other goals quietly build. Each of SDGs 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 and 12 acts on a determinant of health, such as income, food, schooling, women's status, water or pollution, and that determinant changes a health outcome SDG 3 measures, such as under-5 or maternal mortality. Naming the goal, the factor it changes and the health outcome it reaches is the whole skill. This is the real knowscape from knowhere, not a picture of one. Drag it. Watch what actually changes.

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A chain diagram: six goals on the left, the factor each one changes in the middle, and the SDG 3 health outcome each reaches on the right. Switching a goal on lights its chain, and the chain step reveals goal, then intermediate factor, then health outcome.

what examiners catch — Students write that the SDGs are interconnected or that they all improve health without naming a goal, a mechanism and a health outcome. A full answer gives the chain: SDG 6 provides safe water and sanitation, which cuts diarrhoeal disease and so lowers under-5 mortality, an SDG 3 target.
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this conceptsdg framework and human development dimensionsA chain diagram: six goals on the left, the factor each one changes in the middle, and the SDG 3 health outcome each reaches on the right.
sits under itprerequisites for healthbecause Income, food, education, shelter and a stable ecosystem are the factors each chain passes through.
sits under itfactors behind global health differencesbecause The same determinants explain why under-5 and maternal mortality differ between countries.
sits under ithealth status indicatorsbecause Under-5 mortality and maternal mortality are the indicators each chain ends on.
built on itsustainable development goals and global healthbecause the framework before its health goal
built on ithuman development index componentsbecause The three HDI dimensions map onto the SDG view of health, education and living standards.
built on itngos, australian aid and taking actionbecause Links each partnership channel to the dimension of human development it advances.
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