SDG 3 - Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
Actions for SDG 3
Implement safety and risk prevention measures for employees and customers ⬇
- Implement emergency, safety and health protocols
- Conduct emergency simulations for hazard cases
- Order the use of personal protective equipment if necessary
- Inform our staff about possible occupational hazards
- Run health campaigns among our employees
- Have a "quarantine zone" and an isolation route, prior to medical transport
- Carry out occupational risk assessments
Encourage the consumption of healthy products and activities ⬇
- Plan practices and aids for quitting smoking, prohibiting it in common and work areas
- Encourage sports activities among the staff or sponsor sporting events
- Inform staff about the harmful effects of unhealthy habits
- Encourage the use of fresh and healthy products in your menus (If applicable)
- Promote healthy and sustainable mobility
- Install bike racks near work center
- Partner with health care NGOs and public clinics to raise awareness and increase access to targeted health services for women and men workers and their families
Participate in projects that help prevent diseases, avoid environmental risks and safeguard human health ⬇
- Help employees escape unhealthy habits
- Engage in research activities related to health risks.
- Inform employees about different preventional topics: sexuality, family planning, etc
- Iform employees aboout the risks of poor handling of chemicals and their polluting effects
- Inform employees and customers about substance abuse and its consequences
- Facilitate and invest in affordable medicine and health care for low-income populations
- Leverage corporate resources (e.g. R&D, distribution, cold chains) to support health care delivery by public and international organizations
Implement measures to reduce the impact of COVID-19 ⬇
- Have disinfection protocols for your facility
- Have a contingency plan to reduce the risks of contagion
- Assess the presence of vulnerable groups in the work environment and determine specific safety measures for these staff members
- Have the necessary means to carry out COVID-19 health protocols
- Provide appropriate personnel protective equipment upon assessment of occupational hazards
- Provide information about nearby health centres and hospitals, as well as emergency telephones
- Follow a checklist complying with a health and hygiene program, preventing and preventing the spread of bacteria or viruses
- Inform employees of health program measures and requirements maintain and comply with the list of relevant health guidelines and warnings on infectious diseases of government agencies and ensure that this list is up to date
- Inform customers about the conditions of service and prevention measures established before confirming their reservation for acceptance
SDG 3 in Canada
Health disparities still persist ⬇
- The Pan-Canadian Health Inequalities Reporting Initiative strengthens understanding of health inequalities and their main drivers in Canada. One of its key products, the interactive Health Inequalities Data Tool, was launched in 2017. The Data Tool contains inequality results for over 70 indicators of health outcomes and health determinants, broken down at national and provincial/territorial levels by a range of social, economic and demographic factors. This new source of evidence can help inform policy and program development and more effectively reduce health inequalities experienced in Canada, particularly those faced by Indigenous peoples.
- Significant health disparities still persist between Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations in Canada, including higher rates of infant and young child mortality, infectious and chronic diseases (e.g. tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, diabetes and cardiovascular disease) and diseases caused by environmental ontamination.
- Children are vulnerable to health disparities, as negative early childhood experiences can have life-long affects. For this reason, Canada has dedicated children’s health surveillance programs that focus on congenital anomalies, rare and emerging paediatric diseases, childhood cancers, injuries, as well as risk and protective factors (e.g. obesity, physical activity, sleep and child maltreatment).
- Women and girls have particular challenges in achieving healthy lives amid harmful social norms and discrimination. Adolescents in particular face poor health and nutrition outcomes due to their often marginalized status.
Improve national and global health and well-being ⬇
- Improving mental health and preventing mental illness is a crosscutting priority for the Government of Canada. Working collaboratively, the Government invests in a range of initiatives and programs to improve the availability and quality of mental health services, promote positive mental health and contribute to the prevention of mental illness and suicide
- Canada routinely engages a range of public health stakeholders, including regional health authorities, NGOs and disease-specific organizations, and is committed to continuing to enhance stakeholder relations. As part of these efforts, the Chief Public Health Officer’s Health Professional Forum was established in January 2018 to facilitate enhanced relationships with national health professional organizations and collaboratively advance public health priorities
- Through significant engagement at the WHO and other key multilateral forums, Canada advances this approach on important issues including gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, and global health security.
Latest Updates/Resources related to SDG 3
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Sources
Government of Canada, Canada’s Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development - Voluntary National Review, 2018
SDG Compass, Learn More About the SDGs, 2015