The Global Goals: 3. Good Health and Well-Being

This Global Goal aims to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.

My favourite chef, Jamie Oliver, is supporting goal 3, along with TV presenter Davina McCall.

I am a huge Jamie Oliver fan, and his TV show 'Jamie's Sugar Rush' really inspired me, as did his latest book 'Jamie's Superfood'. Working in a school I can see the food that the children are eating at lunchtime on a daily basis. I love that we provide a salad bar everyday, most desserts are served with fruit, they only drink water or milk, and vegetables like sweetcorn and carrots are a regular addition to almost every meal. But not everyone gets access to good food like this, and for some children in this country this - now free  - school meal is the only decent meal they have.

Then, thinking about people outside of this country, there are many that do not even get this kind of lunch, if anything at all!

The targets that make up this goal are to:

• Reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births
• End preventable deaths of newborns and children under five years old
• End the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases, and other communicable diseases
• Reduce by one-third pre-mature mortality from non-communicable diseases
• Strengthen prevention and treatment of substance abuse, including narcotic drug abuse and harmful use of alcohol
• By 2020 halve global deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents
• Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health care services, including for family planning, information and education, and the integration of reproductive health into national strategies and programmes
• Achieve universal health coverage, access to quality health care services, and access to safe, effective, quality, and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all
• Substantially reduce the number of deaths and illnesses from hazardous chemicals and air, water, and soil pollution and contamination
• Increase health financing and the recruitment, development and training of the health workforce in developing countries
• Strengthen the capacity of all countries for early warning, risk reduction, and management of national and global health risks

I believe we cannot try be happy or live to our full potential without our health, so this is a very important goal. Are you supporting this one? Have you seen my posts on Goal 1 (No Poverty) and Goal 2 (Zero Hunger) yet?