The fastest way to cut child deaths is often not a hospital

Six of the Sustainable Development Goals never mention a clinic, yet each one lowers deaths that SDG 3 counts. Income buys food and care, schooling delays first births, safe water stops diarrhoeal disease. Switch on a goal and move the chain step from goal to health outcome, and watch which SDG 3 outcomes light.

Six goals into SDG 3 Step 2 of 2 · outcome

Switch goals on. Move the chain step from goal to outcome. Watch which outcomes light.

Which goals are on?

1 goal on · 2 links lit

Chain stepOutcome

Goal Factor Health outcome

Goals switched on1 of 6

Health outcomes lit1

Which direction?

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Each of the other six goals reaches SDG 3 through a named mechanism that ends in a measurable health outcome, such as safe water cutting diarrhoeal deaths under five.

SDG Framework and Human Development Dimensions: Chain diagram showing how SDGs 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 and 12 each reach a health outcome measured by SDG 3

The fastest way to cut child deaths is often not a hospital