Countdown for health to the post‐2015 UN Sustainable Development Goals

Brolan, Claire E; Hill, Peter S

doi:10.5694/mja14.01147

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“…With health only one goal of the 17 SDGs, advocates could no longer assume the centrality for health granted in the MDGs, and health would only be a priority across the SDG agenda if integral to the achievement of the other SDGs [ 40 , 76 ]. As such, Go4Health researchers advocated engagement across the entire SDG agenda, giving attention to the SDG goals of economic development, environment sustainability and social inclusion necessary to achieve the right to health.…”

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What did the Go4Health policy research project contribute to the policy discourse on the sustainable development goals? A reflexive review

Floden

Hussain

et al. 2018

Global Health

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BackgroundIn 2012, the European Commission funded Go4Health—Goals and Governance for Global Health, a consortium of 13 academic research and human rights institutions from both Global North and South—to track the evolution of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and provide ongoing policy advice. This paper reviews the research outputs published between 2012 and 2016, analyzing the thematic content of the publications, and the influence on global health and development discourse through citation metrics.Findings and discussionAnalysis of the 54 published papers showed 6 dominant themes related to the SDGs: the formulation process for the SDG health goal; the right to health; Universal Health Coverage; voices of marginalized peoples; global health governance; and the integration of health across the other SDGs. The papers combined advocacy---particularly for the right to health and its potential embodiment in Universal Health Coverage—with qualitative research and analysis of policy and stakeholders. Go4Health’s publications on the right to health, global health governance and the voices of marginalized peoples in relation to the SDGs represented a substantial proportion of papers published for these topics. Go4Health analysis of the right to health clarified its elements and their application to Universal Health Coverage, global health governance, financing the SDGs and access to medicines. Qualitative research identified correspondence between perceptions of marginalized peoples and right to health principles, and reluctance among multilateral organizations to explicitly represent the right to health in the goals, despite their acknowledgement of their importance. Citation metrics analysis confirmed an average of 5.5 citations per paper, with a field-weighted citation impact of 2.24 for the 43 peer reviewed publications. Citations in the academic literature and UN policy documents confirmed the impact of Go4Health on the global discourse around the SDGs, but within the Go4Health consortium there was also evidence of two epistemological frames of analysis—normative legal analysis and empirical research—that created productive synergies in unpacking the health SDG and the right to health.ConclusionThe analysis offers clear evidence for the contribution of funded programmatic research—such as the Go4Health project—to the global health discourse.

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Section: Findings and Discussionmentioning

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What did the Go4Health policy research project contribute to the policy discourse on the sustainable development goals? A reflexive review

Floden

Hussain

et al. 2018

Global Health

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“…Within the Sustainable Development Goals, the obstetrics and gynecology community are urged to embrace opportunities and commit to playing a greater role in promoting the health of young couples and children in all countries and at all stages of economic development. Reduction in maternal mortality is one of the integrated indicators of monitoring progress in this area [4], [5]. Hence, aligning the definition of maternal mortality is needed to enhance accurate reporting and recording of progress.…”

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Maternal death: Case definition and guidelines for data collection, analysis, and presentation of immunization safety data

Patwardhan¹,

Eckert²,

Spiegel³

et al. 2016

Vaccine

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“…The question I will seek to address in this article for Laws' Special Issue on Disability and Human Rights, however, is whether the 17 SDGs are as "bold and transformative" ( [1], p. 1, preamble), if not adequately sufficient, to provide seminal instruction for the de facto advance of the human rights of persons with disabilities in the unfolding twenty-first century. My views in response to this question are based on having worked as part of a right to health research collaborative for the last three years, tasked with empirically monitoring and providing advice to the European Commission on health's location in the unfolding post-2015 SDGs [3][4][5]. These views are further grounded in my recent, parallel experience in both disability research and rights advocacy [6][7][8][9][10].…”

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A Word of Caution: Human Rights, Disability, and Implementation of the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals

Brolan

2016

Laws

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On 25 September 2015, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly unanimously voted for the post-2015 UN resolution on the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) agenda. This article argues that although the post-2015 SDG agenda is an advance on its precursor the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)-especially for progressing the human rights of persons with disabilities in development settings, everywhere-it should nonetheless be approached with caution. This article will identify "three steps forward" for persons with disabilities within the broad content of the post-2015 SDGs, while also highlighting four potential "steps back". It concludes persons with disabilities, disability rights advocates and their supporters must remain vigilant as the post-SDG UN resolution is now operationalised and implemented by UN Member States and their many partners. This is particularly so if the content of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is to be effectively integrated into the post-2015 development policy and planning landscape.

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Countdown for health to the post‐2015 UN Sustainable Development Goals

Cited by 9 publications

References 5 publications

What did the Go4Health policy research project contribute to the policy discourse on the sustainable development goals? A reflexive review

What did the Go4Health policy research project contribute to the policy discourse on the sustainable development goals? A reflexive review

Maternal death: Case definition and guidelines for data collection, analysis, and presentation of immunization safety data

A Word of Caution: Human Rights, Disability, and Implementation of the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals

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