Name: Meenu Jain
Country: India

Year: 2020
Volume: Volume-5, Issue-1 (January-June)
Page Number: 4-8

The health of a nation is an essential component of development, vital to the nation’s economic growth and internal stability. Good health and economic prosperity tend to support each other. Ill health leads to low productivity ,reduces national savings and capital accumulation .Health status of population is seen as a development issue ,rather than just a medical one . Good health and well-being are the core dimensions of the SDGs Goal 3 which aims to ‘ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages’.It reflects the concern for human development by addressing emerging health issues. In India, theimprovement is reflected in some health indicators. MMR ( Maternal Mortality Rate ) and IMR(Infant Mortality Rate)have reduced . Life Expectancy has increased But inadequate expenditure on health , nutritional problems , inadequate sanitation and hygiene ,availability of clean drinking water ,burden of large population ,increasing mental health issues ,burden of communicable and Non-communicable diseases , shortage of health infrastructure,road traffic accidents,lack of health education , increasing out of pocket expenditure and inequity in access and affordability are among the main challenges in the health sector . As India is strongly committed to the 2030 Agenda, including the SDGs ,it has accorded priority to the health sector to achieve ‘Health for All’ .Against this background , this paper is focused on SDG goal 3on health .What are the main challenges in this sector ? Will India with her national healthpolicy 2017 be able to achieve this goal .
Key words ; Health ,SDG , policy ,India,