UHC Compendium
Repository of interventions for Universal health coverage
Actions linked to different SDG goals
The UHC Compendium informs investments towards achieving the
SDGs
All countries have adopted the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which form an overarching framework for sustainable development. While goal 3 is specifically focused on health, almost all the SDGs are either directly related to health or indirectly contribute to health. The UHC Compendium includes interventions that will facilitate progress on a range of targets across multiple SDG goals.
Actions relevant for targets under SDG 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages
* Note that health actions may be mapped to more than one SDG target. The figure does not include 3.8 because effectively every intervention within the database is considered under 3.8.
Health and well-being for all at all ages are at the center of sustainable development – as determinants and enablers of the SDGs, and as outcomes. Health is positioned as a major contributor to other SDGs: without health many other SDGs cannot be achieved and, at the same time, health benefits from progress towards the other SDGs. Actions provided within the UHC Compendium therefore fall under SDG3 as well as other SDGs, and providing these actions has an impact beyond health.
Contribution of UHC to other SDG targets
* Note that health actions may be mapped to more than one SDG target.
Targets for SDG 3 and other SDGs mentioned within the compendium
| 2.2 By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons |
| 3.1 By 2030, reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births |
| 3.2 By 2030, end preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years of age, with all countries aiming to reduce neonatal mortality to at least as low as 12 per 1,000 live births and under-5 mortality to at least as low as 25 per 1,000 live births |
| 3.3 By 2030, end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases and combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases and other communicable diseases |
| 3.4 By 2030, reduce by one third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases through prevention and treatment and promote mental health and well-being |
| 3.5 Strengthen the prevention and treatment of substance abuse, including narcotic drug abuse and harmful use of alcohol |
| 3.6 By 2020, halve the number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents |
| 3.7 By 2030, ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services, including for family planning, information and education, and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programmes |
| 3.8 Achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all |
| 3.9 By 2030, substantially reduce the number of deaths and illnesses from hazardous chemicals and air, water and soil pollution and contamination |
| 3.a Strengthen the implementation of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in all countries, as appropriate |
| 3.b Support the research and development of vaccines and medicines for the communicable and non-communicable diseases that primarily affect developing countries, provide access to affordable essential medicines and vaccines, in accordance with the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health, which affirms the right of developing countries to use to the full the provisions in the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights regarding flexibilities to protect public health, and, in particular, provide access to medicines for all |
| 3.c Substantially increase health financing and the recruitment, development, training and retention of the health workforce in developing countries, especially in least developed countries and small island developing States |
| 3.d Strengthen the capacity of all countries, in particular developing countries, for early warning, risk reduction and management of national and global health risks |
| 5.2 Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation |
| 5.3 Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation |
| 5.6 Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences |
| 16.2 End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children |