Goal
Identify UN documents, news, and scholarly research related to the Sustainable Development Goals.
UN Resources
- UN: Official Documents System SearchOnline database of UN documents contains full-text, born-digital UN documents published from 1993 onward, including documents of the Security Council, the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council and their subsidiaries, as well as administrative issuances and other documents. Also contains scanned documents published between 1946 and 1993, including all resolutions of the principal organs, all documents of the Security Council and the General Assembly Official Records.
- United Nations Digital LibraryAccess to UN-produced content including UN documents and publications and information about UN materials in our collections (metadata). Includes records both with and without digital files.
- Sustainable Development Goals: PublicationsPublications and reports on SDGs provided by the United Nations Development Programme.
Statistics
- World Development Indicators
Interactive Databank: choose countries, series (data points), and time frame; output tables, charts, maps.
Country-level comparisons of economic development data. Permits creation of customized reports comparing specified countries by specific development statistics. Also provides external debt and financial flows statistics for countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt under the World Bank's Debtor Reporting System (DRS). Produced by the World Bank.
- UNCTADstat
Trade and development data: data centre, Nowcasts, infographics, country profiles, and release calendar
Incorporates all UNCTAD online statistical databases, including both current and historical data. Topics covered include population and labor forces; economic trends; foreign direct investment; commodity prices; and many more. Produced by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). - International health statisticsCurated resource lists for locating international health statistics by topic (e.g. Alcohol/Substance Abuse, Athma/Allergy, etc) or by region and/or country.
SDG Resources
- Sustainable Development Knowledge PlatformResources supporting UN intergovernmental processes on sustainable development; analysis and policy development; capacity development at the request of Member States; inter-agency coordination; and (5) stakeholder engagement, partnerships, communication and outreach.
- Goal #3: Healthy Lives & Well-BeingProvides access to news, decisions, documents, publications, national reports, statements and meetings and events related to Sustainable Development Goal 3 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: “ensure healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages”
- United Nations Sustainable Development GroupHigh-level forum for joint policy formation and decision-making. It guides, supports, tracks and oversees the coordination of development operations in 162 countries and territories.
- United to ReformReposition the United Nations development system with a stronger, better-defined collective identity as a trusted, reliable, cohesive, accountable and effective partner to countries in the 2030 Agenda.
- SDG Media ZoneFeature of the UN General Assembly high-level week, bringing together UN Member States, content creators, influencers, activists and media partners to highlight actions and solutions in support of the Sustainable Development Goals. Takes conversation on SDGs out of the policy sphere and into the public discourse through impactful in-depth interviews, panel discussions and Ted-style talks.
Key Texts
A History of Global Health : Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples by
A sweeping history explores why people living in resource-poor areas lack access to basic health care after billions of dollars have been invested in international-health assistance. Over the past century, hundreds of billions of dollars have been invested in programs aimed at improving health on a global scale. Given the enormous scale and complexity of these lifesaving operations, why do millions of people in low-income countries continue to live without access to basic health services, sanitation, or clean water? And why are deadly diseases like Ebola able to spread so quickly among populations? In A History of Global Health, Randall M. Packard argues that global-health initiatives have saved millions of lives but have had limited impact on the overall health of people living in underdeveloped areas, where health-care workers are poorly paid, infrastructure and basic supplies such as disposable gloves, syringes, and bandages are lacking, and little effort has been made to address the underlying social and economic determinants of ill health. Global-health campaigns have relied on the application of biomedical technologies--vaccines, insecticide-treated nets, vitamin A capsules--to attack specific health problems but have failed to invest in building lasting infrastructure for managing the ongoing health problems of local populations. Designed to be read and taught, the book offers a critical historical view, providing historians, policy makers, researchers, program managers, and students with an essential new perspective on the formation and implementation of global-health policies and practices.
Call Number: RA441 .P33 2016 (Stacks & Reserves)ISBN: 9781421420332Publication Date: 2016-09-15
Global health : diseases, programs, systems and policies by ISBN: 9781284122770Publication Date: 2020 4th ed.
Plagues and the Paradox of Progress : Why the World is Getting Healthier in Worrisome Ways by
Why the news about the global decline of infectious diseases is not all good. Plagues and parasites have played a central role in world affairs, shaping the evolution of the modern state, the growth of cities, and the disparate fortunes of national economies. This book tells that story, but it is not about the resurgence of pestilence. It is the story of its decline. For the first time in recorded history, virus, bacteria, and other infectious diseases are not the leading cause of death or disability in any region of the world. People are living longer, and fewer mothers are giving birth to many children in the hopes that some might survive. And yet, the news is not all good. Recent reductions in infectious disease have not been accompanied by the same improvements in income, job opportunities, and governance that occurred with these changes in wealthier countries decades ago. There have also been unintended consequences. In this book, Thomas Bollyky explores the paradox in our fight against infectious disease: the world is getting healthier in ways that should make us worry. Bollyky interweaves a grand historical narrative about the rise and fall of plagues in human societies with contemporary case studies of the consequences. Bollyky visits Dhaka--one of the most densely populated places on the planet--to show how low-cost health tools helped enable the phenomenon of poor world megacities. He visits China and Kenya to illustrate how dramatic declines in plagues have affected national economies. Bollyky traces the role of infectious disease in the migrations from Ireland before the potato famine and to Europe from Africa and elsewhere today. Historic health achievements are remaking a world that is both worrisome and full of opportunities. Whether the peril or promise of that progress prevails, Bollyky explains, depends on what we do next. A Council on Foreign Relations Book
ISBN: 9780262348089Publication Date: 2018-10-16
