What are the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Millennium Development Goa

What are the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and how do they inform global health?
The eight MDGs serve as a framework that all the world’s countries and development institutions have agreed to, through the guidance of the United Nations. The MDGs represent a commitment to address and meet the needs of the world’s poorest population by also raising standards for quality of life. The MDGs range from efforts aimed at increasing educational opportunities, providing stable nutrition, and access to food resources for populations, to providing access to healthcare and prevention for populations most in need.
While MDGs may be more indicative of conditions or needs in one country versus another, all MDGs merit attention and continued efforts within the global landscape. Increasing political, social, and economic challenges have affected the degree to which certain efforts are administered in respective countries. Similarly, provision for the tenets of each MDG will require continued collaboration between governmental and community agencies.
For this Discussion, review the Learning Resources for this week and reflect on each MDG. Consider how each MDG might apply to your country or region and how the MDGs address the global burden of disease. Then, reflect on how achieving the goals of the MDGs may impact global society and influence your current or future work in public health in a global context.What are the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and how do they inform global health?
The eight MDGs serve as a framework that all the world’s countries and development institutions have agreed to, through the guidance of the United Nations. The MDGs represent a commitment to address and meet the needs of the world’s poorest population by also raising standards for quality of life. The MDGs range from efforts aimed at increasing educational opportunities, providing stable nutrition, and access to food resources for populations, to providing access to healthcare and prevention for populations most in need.
While MDGs may be more indicative of conditions or needs in one country versus another, all MDGs merit attention and continued efforts within the global landscape. Increasing political, social, and economic challenges have affected the degree to which certain efforts are administered in respective countries. Similarly, provision for the tenets of each MDG will require continued collaboration between governmental and community agencies.
For this Discussion, review the Learning Resources for this week and reflect on each MDG. Consider how each MDG might apply to your country or region and how the MDGs address the global burden of disease. Then, reflect on how achieving the goals of the MDGs may impact global society and influence your current or future work in public health in a global context.
Choose a country and explain which one of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) you believe is most relevant for addressing the global burden of disease in that country, and support why. Then, explain how achieving health related SDGs may impact global society in that country. Specifically, in your response be sure to discuss the means by which structural bias, social inequities and racism undermine health and create challenges to achieving health equity at organizational, community, and societal levels. Provide examples and remember to cite your sources.Choose a country and explain which one of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) you believe is most relevant for addressing the global burden of disease in that country, and support why. Then, explain how achieving health related SDGs may impact global society in that country. Specifically, in your response be sure to discuss the means by which structural bias, social inequities and racism undermine health and create challenges to achieving health equity at organizational, community, and societal levels. Provide examples and remember to cite your sources.
Markle, W. H., Fisher, M. A., & Smego, R. A., Jr. (2014). Understanding global health (2nd ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
Chapter 1, “Global Health: Past, Present, and Future” (pp. 1–28)
Chapter 2, “The Global Burden of Disease” (pp. 29–46)
Browne, A. J., Varcoe, C., Lavoie, J., Smye, V., Wong, S. T., Krause, M., & … Fridkin, A. (2016). Enhancing health care equity with Indigenous populations: evidence-based strategies from an ethnographic study.Links to an external site. BMC Health Services Research, 16(1), 544
Laaser, U., & Brand, H. (2014). Global health in the 21st century.Links to an external site. Global Health Action, 7, 1–9.
Came H, Doole C, McKenna B, McCreanor T. Institutional racism in public health contracting: Findings of a nationwide survey from New Zealand. Social Science & Medicine [serial online].Links to an external site. February 2018; 199:132-139
GBD 2015 SDG Collaborators. (2016). Measuring the health-related Sustainable Development Goals in 188 countries: a baseline analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015.Links to an external site. Lancet (London, England), 388(10053), 1813–1850
Lomazzi, M., Borisch, B., & Laaser, U. (2014). The millennium development goals: Experiences, achievements and what’s next.Links to an external site. Global Health Action, 7, 1–9.
Document: Course Project Guidelines Download Course Project Guidelines(PDF)
Sustainable Development Goals: Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform.Links to an external site. (n.d.). Retrieved December 25, 2017, from https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/?menu=1300
WHO | Sustainable Development GoalsLinks to an external site. (SDGs). (n.d.). Retrieved December 25, 2017, from http://www.who.int/sdg/en/Markle, W. H., Fisher, M. A., & Smego, R. A., Jr. (2014). Understanding global health (2nd ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
Chapter 1, “Global Health: Past, Present, and Future” (pp. 1–28)
Chapter 2, “The Global Burden of Disease” (pp. 29–46)
Browne, A. J., Varcoe, C., Lavoie, J., Smye, V., Wong, S. T., Krause, M., & … Fridkin, A. (2016). Enhancing health care equity with Indigenous populations: evidence-based strategies from an ethnographic study.Links to an external site. BMC Health Services Research, 16(1), 544
Laaser, U., & Brand, H. (2014). Global health in the 21st century.Links to an external site. Global Health Action, 7, 1–9.
Came H, Doole C, McKenna B, McCreanor T. Institutional racism in public health contracting: Findings of a nationwide survey from New Zealand. Social Science & Medicine [serial online].Links to an external site. February 2018; 199:132-139
GBD 2015 SDG Collaborators. (2016). Measuring the health-related Sustainable Development Goals in 188 countries: a baseline analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015.Links to an external site. Lancet (London, England), 388(10053), 1813–1850
Lomazzi, M., Borisch, B., & Laaser, U. (2014). The millennium development goals: Experiences, achievements and what’s next.Links to an external site. Global Health Action, 7, 1–9.
Document: Course Project Guidelines Download Course Project Guidelines(PDF)
Sustainable Development Goals: Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform.Links to an external site. (n.d.). Retrieved December 25, 2017, from https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/?menu=1300
WHO | Sustainable Development GoalsLinks to an external site. (SDGs). (n.d.). Retrieved December 25, 2017, from http://www.who.int/sdg/en/
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation:
Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study 20th Anniversary
Emerging Challenges as Seen Through the GBD
Epidemiological Transition and Progress Toward Improving Health
GBD 20th Anniversary. (n.d.).Links to an external site. Retrieved August 12, 2018, from http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYFimvm8d7MzZwZsPWjU3fszOWS9-issk Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation:
Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study 20th Anniversary
Emerging Challenges as Seen Through the GBD
Epidemiological Transition and Progress Toward Improving Health
GBD 20th Anniversary. (n.d.).Links to an external site. Retrieved August 12, 2018, from http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYFimvm8d7MzZwZsPWjU3fszOWS9-issk