Redlection 2: Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good health and Well Being

  Name: Fatin Natrah binti Mazelan

Matric Number: 2110182

Did you know, the number of children who die has been cut in half in the last 15 years. This demonstrates that practically any sickness may be defeated. Despite this, we continue to sped a staggering amount of money and energy addressing illnesses that are shockingly simple to avoid. The new global aim for good health encourages everyone to live a healthy lifestyle, take preventative actions, and receive contemporary, efficient healthcare.

Goal 3 of the Sustainable Development Goals aims to ensure everyone's health and well-being at all stages of life. All main health issues are addressed in the Goal, including reproductive, maternal, and child health; communicable, noncommunicable, and environmental diseases; universal health coverage; and universal access to safe, effective, high-quality, and affordable medicines and vaccinations for all. It also calls for additional research and development, higher health spending, and improved health risk reduction and management capabilities in all countries.

Here is a picture depicting statistic on the 3rd SDG: Good Health and Wellbeing. (Picture retrieved from website: https://in.one.un.org/page/sustainable-development-goals/sdg-3-2/  )

The challenges that we face in Malaysia is a little number of hospitals and government service. I myself experience this because I use to go to the dentist in UTC and I got my appointment in one month. I think the government should increase the number of hospitals and clinics so that many of us will get better health quality and can do an annual checkup. It is never a waste to establish many hospitals and clinics. 

Apart from that, the challenge that not only exists in Malaysia, but I believe exists in every corner of the world is, anti-vaccine. They are the people who rejected vaccines because they believe in false statements. This kind of people is going to harm their children and themselves. 

This is a picture showing to us that anti vaccine harms their child by not allowing them to vaccine. In Malaysia, this kind of people is usually the old people, as they held strongly to their culture,a nd not to scientific researchers. Therefore I think, in order to change their perspective toward this, I would suggest the health department to ask Ustaz-ustazah to become the ambassador to vaccine because old people usually believes the Ustaz and Ustazah. That is one of the effort that can be done to encourage people to vaccine. Apart from that, awareness need to be spread among youngsters so that the know the importance of vaccine and will take it for their future children, with no hesitation. 

In the larger view, I see Malaysia is still left behind in the health section and government need to do something to empower that in our country. Government should give incentive to people who had made a remarkable achievement. Hence, I believe that we can improve good health and well being in Malaysia. However, Rome was not built in a day. All of us should start playing our role to make things work in the future.