Well-being is a feeling of satisfaction with life, a state characterized by health, happiness, and prosperity. Good health concerns the care of the human body and everything that can be done to protect it from sickness and intoxication and enable access to care.
US$1 billion is spent each year on vaccines which can save up to 1 million children per year. Since 1990, thanks to vaccines, 17,000 fewer children have died every day, but more than 6 million children are still dying before their fifth birthday each year.
Why Education is crucial to achieving SDG-3
Education is key to educate people on drug and alcohol abuse and prevention as well as on mental health issues. It provides relevant knowledge and information about family planning, sex education and reproductive health. (Access to Learning objectives for SDG-3)
Within a context of fun, play, movement and active recreation, learners at this level begin to develop socio-emotional literacy, learning to manage feelings, to build relationships and to understand others’ emotions. (Access Educational materials here)
At this stage, learners acquire basic knowledge about mental and emotional health, as well as about sexual and reproductive health and rights. They develop the relevant abilities to express feelings in a healthy way, managing emotional and physical stress, and seeking assistance if necessary. As a result, tolerance, respect and understanding of others’ differences and emotions is promoted. (Access Educational materials here)
Health education at this level includes learning about the factors for communicable and non-communicable diseases, and about the links between quality of nutritional intake, environmental factors and lifestyle choices. Through research and evaluation, learners acquire the necessary skills to critically analyze factors affecting health and disparities. In parallel, they develop responsibility for their own personal health and well-being as part of their own choices and behaviours, as well as for the choices and circumstances of others. Access Educational materials here)
Pedagogical Resources
- HIV And Health Education - These UNESCO technical Notes are meant to serve as practical information on each topic.
Multimedia Educational Resources
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- Green Kindergartens – environmental education for young children- Live and Learn Environmental Education & Vanuatu Early Childhood Association. - Page 19- A comprehensive handbook was developed in consultation with 26 teachers. It covers 6 environmental topics and guides teachers through experiential learning activities, including songs, storytelling and art projects they can use with children. The handbook is designed to complement the two Green Kindergartens posters “Waste” and “Gardening”. These posters and booklet were pretested before design with a group. The workshops covered practical activities included in the Green Kindergartens handbook. Teachers learned ways to teach children about environmental issues using practical, hands-on activities. These workshops sought to assist teachers in developing their students’ critical literacy, problem-solving skills, decision-making skills and dialogue, and to link learning to taking action in the local community.
Pedagogical Resources
- HIV And Health Education - These UNESCO technical Notes are meant to serve as practical information on each topic.
- Rise Of The Plate PioneerZ - A comic adventure to support Sustainable Development Goal 2 and 3.
- Emerging Infectious Diseases - This second resource in the Commonwealth Science Class series is centred on how to prevent the spread of infectious diseases and is packed with activity ideas to help your students investigate the subject.
Ideas for Classroom Activities
- Introducing The Plate PioneerZ - Why does eating healthily affect the outcome of the Global Goals?
- A Healthy Start - This resource aims to: Determine what is considered good health; Find ways to practice good health; Explore and remind about the importance of looking after yourself; Develop and improve sentence structure and grammar.
Multimedia Educational Resources
- Good Health And Well-being - What does being in good health mean? This simple show explains what factors contribute to a healthy live and wellbeing.
- How Do We Stop Infectious Diseases From Spreading - The video covers the topic of emerging infectious disease and shows how a class in Nigeria is learning how they can help stop them from spreading.
- It Is Health That Is Real Wealth And Not Pieces Of Gold And Silver - Advocacy Poster about the importance of health.
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- Promoting environmental and human welfare - A recycling project at the school has been developed. The Protea Park primary school project reflects the gradual disappearance of rubbish dumps in the school’s neighborhood. This initiative has allowed recycled waste to be sold to a local firm, thus increasing the school’s income for installing recreational facilities for students.
Pedagogical Resources
- Good Health & Well-Being: Why It Matters - Technical note presenting SDG 3, why, the progress made so far, how much it will cost to achieve the targets and what we can do to help.
- Teaching And Learning For A Sustainable Future - Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future is a UNESCO programme for the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. It provides professional development for teachers, curriculum developers, education policy-makers, and education authors.
- Malaria Toolkit - This toolkit goes into detail through focused activities that unpack the issues around Malaria in more depth.
Ideas for Classroom Activities
- A Healthy Start - Why does eating healthily affect the outcome of the Global Goals?
- Birth Rights - Students learn about the factors that still prevent many women from gaining access to good quality maternal healthcare and why investment is still needed to improve the health system and reduce maternal mortality.
- Ebola Behind The Headlines - Questioning A Crisis - This resource helps pupils to understand how Ebola, a deadly but historically relatively rare disease, became the defining public health emergency of 2014.
Multimedia Educational Resources
- Sustainable Development Goals Explained By An Expert - Good Health and Well-being - Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director from UN Population Fund, talks about what role governments and civil society can play to help people achieve good health and wellbeing.
- SDG 3 – Good Health And Well-Being - Video suggesting ideas for improving overall health & wellbeing.
- You Didn’t Know That Polio Still Exists, Did You? - What does it take to get polio vaccines to the most remote corners of the earth?
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- The Palestinian Authority - Ethics and environmentally friendly schools- Ramallah Girls’ Secondary Public School. - Page 37 - The population of Ramallah city is increasing rapidly and this places great pressure on local natural resources. Hence the establishing of an eco-friendly school with an emphasis on environmental ethics is an undertaking of great importance for Ramallah students. The objectives were to: increase green areas in the school by planting wild and endemic plants; produce traditional gifts through reducing, recycling and reusing solid waste; promote voluntary work to keep the forests clean and to investigate biodiversity; investigate environmental ethics and global warming; provide healthy, traditional breakfasts using natural resources; and establish an environmental SEMEP club.
