Special Issue "Health in All: Global Health and Sustainable Development Goals"

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

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Srinivas Goli
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Guest Editor
Australia India Institute (AII), UWA Public Policy Institute, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Perth, WA 6009, Australia
Interests: formal demography; global health; health economics; gender and nutrition
Dr. Bidhubhusan Mahapatra
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Guest Editor
Project Director, Population Council, New Delhi 110003, India
Interests: climate change; family planning; livelihoods and food security
Prof. Dr. Tushar Bharati
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Guest Editor
UWA Business School, Economics, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6009, Australia
Interests: human capital; public economics; political economy; migration

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Health has a key position in the global agenda through SDG-3 and is closely linked to other goals related to poverty, hunger, education, gender, economic inequalities, and water and sanitation, among others. In fact, the SDGs represent a unique opportunity to promote public health through an integrated approach to public policies across different sectors (the ‘Health in All’ approach defined by the WHO). For example, better education for girls (goal 4.1) and gender equality (goal 5) in Asia and Africa would improve maternal health (goal 3.1); accessing clean water and sanitation would have a great impact on child malnourishment (goal 2.2) and child health (goal 3.2); and ensuring good health and wellbeing will evidently have a direct impact on several SDG targets. On the other hand, using coal to improve energy access (goal 7) and increase unplanned urbanisation (goal 11) and unsustainable consumption and production (goal 12) would have a negative impact on health. Thus, the achievement of health goals will require policy coherence to reinforce synergies between certain SDGs and minimise trade-offs. The development of such policies and strategies needs robust empirical examination of the association, causation, and impact of changes in indicators of other SDGs on health and vice versa. In this call for papers, Sustainability welcomes accounts of studies exploring the following themes:

  • Measurement and monitoring of SDG-3 targets
  • Impact of COVID-19 on SDG-3 targets
  • Role of other SDGs in global health convergence
  • Public health spending and SDG-3
  • Economic growth and health
  • Poverty and health
  • Education and health
  • Gender equity and health
  • Environment and health
  • Clean water, sanitation and health
  • Politics, conflict, and health
  • Agriculture, food security, and nutrition
  • Health and wealth
  • Economic returns to healthcare spending
  • Gender dividend
  • Voluntary and forced migration and health

Prof. Dr. Srinivas Goli
Dr. Bidhubhusan Mahapatra
Prof. Dr. Tushar Bharati
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • SDGs
  • health for all
  • global health convergence
  • nutrition
  • food security
  • COVID-19
  • economic growth
  • poverty
  • inequalities
  • education
  • gender
  • water and sanitation
  • migration
  • conflicts

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Family Welfare Expenditure, Contraceptive Use, Sources and Method-Mix in India
Sustainability 2021, 13(17), 9562; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13179562 - 25 Aug 2021
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Making universal access to sexual and reproductive health care a reality, and thus building momentum for comprehensive family planning by 2030, is key for achieving sustainable development goals. However, in the last decade, India has been retreating from progress achieved in access to [...] Read more.
Making universal access to sexual and reproductive health care a reality, and thus building momentum for comprehensive family planning by 2030, is key for achieving sustainable development goals. However, in the last decade, India has been retreating from progress achieved in access to family planning. Family planning progress for a large country such as India is critical for achieving sustainable developmental goals. Against this backdrop, the paper investigated the question of how far family welfare expenditure affects contraceptive use, sources of contraceptive methods, and method-mix using triangulation of micro and macro data analyses. Our findings suggest that, except for female sterilizations, modern methods of contraception do not show a positive relationship with family welfare expenditure. Notwithstanding a rise in overall family welfare expenditure, spending on core family planning programs stagnates. State-wise and socio-economic heterogeneity in source-mix and method-mix continued to influence contraceptive access in India. Method-mix continued to skew towards female sterilization. Public sector access is helpful only for promoting female sterilization. Thus, the source-mix for modern contraceptives presents a clear public-private divide. Over time, access to all contraceptive methods by public sources declined while the private sector has failed to fill the gap. In conclusion, this study identified a need for revitalizing family planning programs to promote spacing methods in relatively lower-performing states and socio-economic groups to increase overall contraceptive access and use in India through the rise in core family planning expenditure. Full article
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