Objectives of Sustainable Development and Non Transmissible Chronic Disease

Abstract

The Agenda Post 2015 to sustainable development proposes the 17 Objectives of Sustainable Development (ODS) that will be the focus of world interest in the next 15 years.Nursing cannot ignore this milestone of global work that will significantly contribute to improve the quality of life of people, families and communities. The International Council of Nursing and Society of Nursing Honor Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) acknowledged that Nursing has a important role to success of those targets. STTI fostered a strategy to give a voice to women and nursing at United Nations, with active participation in world decisions in health subject and consolidated a work group led by the nurse Holly Shaw, from New York (1).It is undeniable that objective number 3 "To assure a healthy life and foster the well being of all people in all ages" is the one of greatest emphasis in our subject; However, there are other challenges in the other 16 objectives. This text intends to reflect about those objectives and the innovative care of nursing in Non Transmissible Chronic Disease (ECNT) from the experience I had in the research group nursing care to chronic patient (2) .Objective. ECNT is closely related to poverty, as it is one of causes of risk factors to ECNT. However, when there is a chronic conditions, there are factors that generate poverty in families related to home care of person with ECNT upon existing a greater demand of public services, necessity of taking over transport costs and using family economical resources to assure the opportunity of health assistance with additional services that are not provided by assistance plans in the countries or access essential medicines of treatments.Objective 4. The family caregivers of people with ECNT and also people in situations of incapacity have few possibilities of accessing advanced education. A proof of it are the low indexes of education and gender inequality. The care work in ECNT is delegated to informal caregivers with or without minimum education to read and write, which is a risk to patient's health.Objective 5 and 8. The care economics (non remunerated care) estimated a great contribution, specially of women, to financial sustainability of countries with "Care of life at home". But it was not socially and politically recognized when it was not esteemed and rewarded upon laws. In the same way, the migration has made that the informal care work is a possibility of personal economic development, but it endangers the health of caregivers and also of the person who is being cared because there is no assurance to this work of a minimum education and a professional and institutional continuity.