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Artificial Intelligence for Promoting the Health and Well-Being of Sustainable Development Goals

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Health, Well-Being and Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2027 | Viewed by 730

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Dear Colleagues,

The United Nations lists health and well-being as the third goal in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). International organizations such as AI4Good are making efforts to utilize artificial intelligence (AI) to contribute to achieving the SDGs.

While AI has brought a number of benefits for work and life, it also poses some emerging concerns including AI divide, privacy vulnerability, biased data and decisions, over dependency on the technology, inaccurate information sources and copyright infringement, to name a few. AI processors’ and data centers’ large energy consumption is another issue to be addressed in a separate volume.

We cordially invite your frontier research in artificial intelligence for promoting the health and well-being of Sustainable Development Goals to be published in this Special Issue. Particular interests include AI for healthcare solutions in medical institutions, AI use to promote personal and organizational well-being, the pros and cons of adopting AI in medical and healthcare industries with some guidelines and various topics within the scope of this Special Issue.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Joosung Lee
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Keywords

  • Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
  • AI
  • healthcare
  • life quality

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From Inclusion to Nutrition: Can Digital Inclusive Finance Impact Residents’ Dietary Nutrition in China?
by Congying Zhang and Jingjing Jiang
Sustainability 2026, 18(7), 3530; https://doi.org/10.3390/su18073530 - 3 Apr 2026
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In light of China’s dual national strategies of Healthy China and the Big Food View, this study examines the relationship between digital inclusive finance and residents’ dietary nutrition, with a focus on healthier and more sustainable dietary patterns. Using panel data from 31 [...] Read more.
In light of China’s dual national strategies of Healthy China and the Big Food View, this study examines the relationship between digital inclusive finance and residents’ dietary nutrition, with a focus on healthier and more sustainable dietary patterns. Using panel data from 31 Chinese provinces over the period 2015–2022, we employ a two-way fixed effects model to evaluate how digital inclusive finance is associated with food intake diversity and dietary structure balance. The empirical findings show that digital inclusive finance is positively associated with increased consumption of both plant-based foods (e.g., cereals) and animal-based foods (e.g., meat, milk and aquatic products), contributing to improved dietary structure balance. These findings remain robust after addressing potential endogeneity concerns and conducting a series of multiple robustness checks. Further heterogeneity analysis indicates that the depth of use and degree of digitization are significantly associated with dietary quality, while the breadth of coverage shows no significant effect. Moreover, the positive associations are more pronounced among rural residents, upper-middle income groups, and households with lower levels of human capital, groups with high e-commerce development and high levels of digitalization. These findings highlight the potential role of digital inclusive finance as a policy tool for promoting healthier and more sustainable dietary patterns, particularly among disadvantaged populations in rural China. Full article
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