UNSDG #3: Good Health and Well-Being
Ensuring healthy lives and promoting the well-being at all ages is essential to sustainable development.
Significant strides have been made in increasing life expectancy and reducing some of the common killers associated with child and maternal mortality, but working towards achieving the target of less than 70 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births by 2030 would require improvements in skilled delivery care.
Achieving the target of reducing premature deaths due to incommunicable diseases by 1/3 by the year 2030 would also require more efficient technologies for clean fuel use during cooking and education on the risks of tobacco.
Many more efforts are needed to fully eradicate a wide range of diseases and address many different persistent and emerging health issues. By focusing on providing more efficient funding of health systems, improved sanitation and hygiene, increased access to physicians and more tips on ways to reduce ambient pollution, significant progress can be made in helping to save the lives of millions.
UN Sustainable Development Goals
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Clarissa Gonzalez '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy A wearable bracelet with features such as pushing a button of some sort to call 911. Pushing the button a certain number of times to text friends your location as well as for a fake emergency call: a call that gives you an excuse to leave a dangerous situation. It will have the additional feature of being able to ... Read More 9:30 AM - 9:50 AM |
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Dominika Klejka '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy COVID-19 has had a huge impact on the world but how exactly did it affect different parts of the world differently? We will answer this question by comparing census data before and after COVID. We will analyze how various factors such as income, crime rate, etc have changed before and after COVID-19. Afterwards we will look at covid rates ... Read More 9:30 AM - 9:50 AM |
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Improving Racial Disparities in the Illinois Healthcare System Chinara Caldwell '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy In our SLX we specifically talk about race and relating it back to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDG) that is Good Health and well being. We go into depth how about race impacts Good health and Well Being to find a problem. The problem we see a lot now days is racial disparites in health care. For ... Read More 9:55 AM - 10:15 AM |
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Ishan Buyyanapragada '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy We have noticed that people are not going to the gym and are subconsciously going to unhealthy alternatives and unconsciously hurting themselves and the environment because the gym is too expensive. We are targeting people who can’t afford to go to the gym or afford workout equipment and those who are interested in starting to workout. To start expanding, we ... Read More 10:20 AM - 10:40 AM |
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Garrett Snedden '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy Since Roe v. Wade, facilities around the United States have provided counseling and abortion alternatives to pregnant women. Often called a crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs), these centers provide support to women who are in need of pregnancy services and do not wish to have an abortion. However, as largely Christian nonprofits, these centers are legally exempt from many qualifications applied ... Read More 10:45 AM - 11:05 AM |
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Natasha Inocencio, '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy Throughout the early twenty-first century, there has been an increase in substance abuse in America. According to the National Center for Drug Abuse Statistics, drug use went up by 61% among 8th graders between 2016 and 2020, 62% of teenagers in 12th grade have abused alcohol, and 50% of teenagers have misused a drug at least once. As the ... Read More 10:45 AM - 11:05 AM |
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Nethra Shanbhag '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy The Heart Bill (Senate Bill 8) in Texas prohibits abortion once a heartbeat is detected. A heartbeat in a fetus can be detected around 6 to 7 weeks (sometimes earlier) and most women do not know they are pregnant at this time. This law does not accommodate rape or incest situations and state law requires two visits to the ... Read More 10:45 AM - 11:05 AM |
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Influence of Tests on Stress Mods at IMSA David Dickson '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy The importance of mental health in the school setting has grown at an alarming rate in recent years. School legislators hope that by implementing new initiatives to consider a student's mental well-being, they will alleviate some of the burden placed on students and place an emphasis on mental health. Last year, it was mandated in Illinois that students be allowed ... Read More 10:45 AM - 11:05 AM |
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Alyssa Abendroth '24, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy IMSA students tend to face a lot more stress than the typical high school student. However, there are limited resources the IMSA administration offers students to cope with these great amounts of stress. As a result, The Positive Point was developed. The Positive Point is a resource that students can utilize to help cope with school mentally as well ... Read More 10:45 AM - 11:05 AM |
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