The CSO, through Ireland's Institute for SDGs (IIS), supports reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals.
| Goal 3 Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | ||
| Goal 3.1 | By 2030, reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births | |
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| Department | Relevant National Policy | National Policy Key Objective |
| DFAT | One World, One Future | One World, One Future – Priority Action Area 5 Essential Services. |
| The Global Island | ||
| Goal 3.2 | By 2030, end preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years of age | |
| Department | Relevant National Policy | National Policy Key Objective |
| DoH | Creating A Better Future Together: National Maternity Strategy 2016-2026 | A health and well-being approach is adopted to ensure that babies get the best start in life; Mothers and families are supported and empowered to improve their own health and well-being; Women have access to safe, high-quality, nationally consistent, woman-centred maternity care; Pregnancy and birth is recognised as a normal physiological process, and insofar as it is safe to do so, a woman’s choice is facilitated; |
| Better Outcomes, Brighter Futures: the National Policy Framework for Children and Young People 2014-2020 | That all our children and young people are:
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| Goal 3.3 | By 2030, end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases and combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases and other communicable diseases | |
| Department | Relevant National Policy | National Policy Key Objective |
| DoH | Healthy Ireland – A Framework for Improved Health and Well-being 2013-2025 | Increase the proportion of people who are healthy at all stages of life. Reduce health inequalities. Protect the public from threats to health and well-being. Create an environment where every individual and sector of society can play their part in achieving a healthy Ireland. |
| The National Sexual Health Strategy 2015-2020 | Everyone in Ireland will receive comprehensive and age-appropriate sexual health education/information and will have access to appropriate prevention and promotion services; Equitable, accessible and high-quality sexual health services, which are targeted and tailored to need, will be available to everyone; and Robust and high-quality sexual health information will be generated to underpin policy, practice, service planning and strategic monitoring. |
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| Ireland’s National Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance 2017-2020 | ||
| Goal 3.4 | BBy 2030, reduce by one third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases through prevention and treatment and promote mental health and well‑being | |
| Department | Relevant National Policy | National Policy Key Objective |
| DoH | Healthy Ireland – A Framework for Improved Health and Well-being 2013-2025 | Increase the proportion of people who are healthy at all stages of life. Reduce health inequalities. Protect the public from threats to health and well-being. Create an environment where every individual and sector of society can play their part in achieving a healthy Ireland. |
| The National Cancer Strategy 2017-2026 | The strategy is focused on preventing cancer across our population, diagnosing cancer early, providing optimal care to patients and maximising their quality of life. | |
| National Physical Activity Plan for Ireland 2016 | The aim of the National Physical Activity Plan is to increase physical activity levels across the entire population thereby improving the health and well-being of people living in Ireland, where everybody will be physically active and where everybody lives, works and plays in a society that facilitates, promotes and supports physical activity and an active way of life with less time spent being sedentary. | |
| Connecting for Life 2015-2020 (National Suicide Strategy) |
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| Goal 3.5 | Strengthen the prevention and treatment of substance abuse, including narcotic drug abuse and harmful use of alcohol | |
| Department | Relevant National Policy | National Policy Key Objective |
| DoH | Reducing Harm, Supporting Recovery – a health led response to drug and alcohol use in Ireland 2017-2025 | Promote and protect health and well-being. Minimise the harms caused by the use and misuse of substances and promote rehabilitation and recovery. Address the harms of drug markets and reduce access to drugs for harmful use. Support participation of individuals, families and communities. Develop sound and comprehensive evidence-informed policies and actions. |
| Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2017 [Currently before the Oireachtas] | The objective of the Bill is to reduce alcohol consumption in Ireland to the OECD average of 9.1 litres of pure alcohol per capita, by 2020. | |
| Goal 3.6 | By 2020, halve the number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents | |
| Department | Relevant National Policy | National Policy Key Objective |
| DTTAS | Government Strategy on Road Safety 2013-2020 | To reduce road crash fatalities from 186 in 2011 to 124 or fewer by 2020. |
| Goal 3.7 | By 2030, 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 | |
| Department | Relevant National Policy | National Policy Key Objective |
| DoH | The National Sexual Health Strategy 2015-2020 | To ensure everyone in Ireland will receive comprehensive and age-appropriate sexual health education/information and will have access to appropriate prevention and promotion services; Equitable, accessible and high-quality sexual health services, which are targeted and tailored to need, will be available to everyone; and Robust and high-quality sexual health information will be generated to underpin policy, practice, service planning and strategic monitoring.. |
| Goal 3.8 | Achieve universal health coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all | |
| Department | Relevant National Policy | National Policy Key Objective |
| DoH | Government Response to the Report of the Committee on the Future of Healthcare. Sláintecare Report 2017-2026. [Currently under development] | To ensure that, in future, everyone has access to an affordable, universal, single-tier healthcare system, in which patients are treated promptly on the basis of need, rather than ability to pay. |
| Goal 3.9 | By 2030, substantially reduce the number of deaths and illnesses from hazardous chemicals and air, water and soil pollution and contamination | |
| Department | Relevant National Policy | National Policy Key Objective |
| DBEI | Chemicals Act 2008 | The main purpose of the 2008 Act is to facilitate the enforcement of certain EU Regulations concerning chemicals. These Regulations include the:
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| DCCAE | Waste Management Policy, Legislation and National Implementation Plan on Persistent Organic Pollutants | Comprehensive policy (2012 ‘A Resource Opportunity’) and legislation to ensure that the disposal and recovery of waste does not present a risk to water, air, soil, plants, human health and animals. Legislation also sets a general duty on everyone not to hold, transport, recover or dispose of waste in a manner that causes or is likely to cause environmental pollution. Implementing legislation covers national priorities in addition to EU and international obligations. |
| National Clean Air Strategy |
This Strategy will provide the framework to promote and identify a range of measures across government policy required to reduce air pollution and promote cleaner air while delivering on wider national and international objectives. |
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| Goal 3.a | Strengthen the implementation of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in all countries, as appropriate | |
| Department | Relevant National Policy | National Policy Key Objective |
| DoH | Tobacco Free Ireland 2013-2025 | To reduce smoking prevalence to less than 5% by 2025. |
| Goal 3.b | Support the research and development of vaccines and medicines for the communicable and non-communicable diseases that primarily affect developing countries, provide access to affordable essential medicines and vaccines, in accordance with the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health, which affirms the right of developing countries to use to the full the provisions in the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights regarding flexibilities to protect public health, and, in particular, provide access to medicines for all | |
| Department | Relevant National Policy | National Policy Key Objective |
| DFAT | One World, One Future | One World One Future – Priority Action Area 5 Essential Services. |
| The Global Island | ||
| Goal 3.c | Substantially increase health financing and the recruitment, development, training and retention of the health workforce in developing countries, especially in least developed countries and small island developing States | |
| Department | Relevant National Policy | National Policy Key Objective |
| DFAT | One World, One Future | One World One Future – Priority Action Area 5 Essential Services. |
| The Global Island | ||
| Goal 3.d | Strengthen the capacity of all countries, in particular developing countries, for early warning, risk reduction and management of national and global health risks | |
| Department | Relevant National Policy | National Policy Key Objective |
| DFAT | One World, One Future | One World One Future – Priority Action Area 5 Essential Services. |
| The Global Island | ||
| Goal 3. Ensure healtdy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | |
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| 3.1 By 2030, reduce tde global maternal mortality ratio to less tdan 70 per 100,000 live birtds |
3.1.1 Maternal mortality ratio |
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3.1.2 Proportion of birtds attended by skilled healtd personnel |
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| 3.2 By 2030, end preventable deatds of newborns and children under 5 years of age, witd all countries aiming to reduce neonatal mortality to at least as low as 12 per 1,000 live birtds and under‑5 mortality to at least as low as 25 per 1,000 live birtds |
3.2.1 Under‑5 mortality rate |
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3.2.2 Neonatal mortality rate |
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| 3.3 By 2030, end tde epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases and combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases and otder communicable diseases |
3.3.1 Number of new HIV infections per 1,000 uninfected population, by sex, age and key populations |
| 3.3.2 Tuberculosis incidence per 100,000 population | |
| 3.3.3 Malaria incidence per 1,000 population | |
| 3.3.4 Hepatitis B incidence per 100,000 population | |
| 3.3.5 Number of people requiring interventions against neglected tropical diseases | |
3.4 By 2030, reduce by one tdird premature mortality from non-communicable diseases tdrough prevention and treatment and promote mental healtd and well-being |
3.4.1 Mortality rate attributed to cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes or chronic respiratory disease |
| 3.4.2 Suicide mortality rate | |
| 3.5 Strengtden tde prevention and treatment of substance abuse, including narcotic drug abuse and harmful use of alcohol | 3.5.1 Coverage of treatment interventions (pharmacological, psychosocial and rehabilitation and aftercare services) for substance use disorders |
| 3.5.2 Alcohol per capita consumption (aged 15 years and older) witdin a calendar year in litres of pure alcohol | |
| 3.6 By 2020, halve tde number of global deatds and injuries from road traffic accidents | 3.6.1 Deatd rate due to road traffic injuries |
| 3.7 By 2030, ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive healtd-care services, including for family planning, information and education, and tde integration of reproductive healtd into national strategies and programmes | 3.7.1 Proportion of women of reproductive age (aged 15–49 years) who have tdeir need for family planning satisfied witd modern metdods |
| 3.7.2 Adolescent birtd rate (aged 10–14 years; aged 15–19 years) per 1,000 women in tdat age group | |
| 3.8 Achieve universal healtd coverage, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential healtd-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all | 3.8.1 Coverage of essential healtd services |
| 3.8.2 Proportion of population witd large household expenditures on healtd as a share of total household expenditure or income | |
| 3.9 By 2030, substantially reduce tde number of deatds and illnesses from hazardous chemicals and air, water and soil pollution and contamination | 3.9.1 Mortality rate attributed to household and ambient air pollution |
| 3.9.2 Mortality rate attributed to unsafe water, unsafe sanitation and lack of hygiene (exposure to unsafe Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for All (WASH) services) | |
| 3.9.3 Mortality rate attributed to unintentional poisoning | |
| 3.a Strengtden tde implementation of tde World Healtd Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in all countries, as appropriate | 3.a.1 Age-standardized prevalence of current tobacco use among persons aged 15 years and older |
| 3.b Support tde research and development of vaccines and medicines for tde communicable and non‑communicable diseases tdat primarily affect developing countries, provide access to affordable essential medicines and vaccines, in accordance witd tde Doha Declaration on tde TRIPS Agreement and Public Healtd, which affirms tde right of developing countries to use to tde full tde provisions in tde Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights regarding flexibilities to protect public healtd, and, in particular, provide access to medicines for all | 3.b.1 Proportion of tde target population covered by all vaccines included in tdeir national programme |
| 3.b.2 Total net official development assistance to medical research and basic healtd sectors | |
| 3.b.3 Proportion of healtd facilities tdat have a core set of relevant essential medicines available and affordable on a sustainable basis | |
| 3.c Substantially increase healtd financing and tde recruitment, development, training and retention of tde healtd workforce in developing countries, especially in least developed countries and small island developing States | 3.c.1 Healtd worker density and distribution |
| 3.d Strengtden tde capacity of all countries, in particular developing countries, for early warning, risk reduction and management of national and global healtd risks | 3.d.1 International Healtd Regulations (IHR) capacity and healtd emergency preparedness |
| 3.d.2 Percentage of bloodstream infections due to selected antimicrobial-resistant organisms | |
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