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Emily Gott

Meyer

English I

1 March 2019

Good Health and Well Being

This goal was about good health and well being which means when people are all

around doing well. An example that describes this is when people are physically,

mentally and socially healthy. This could be as simple as physically exercising and

eating healthy foods, or it could be a little more complex, such as having a good balance

in your life an example of this is being able to handle stress. Another detail would be

being able to reach a well being in someone's life. Someone can do this by dealing with

issues in a good way and getting rid of the toxic things in life. Another idea would be

promoting a healthy lifestyle and well being. A simple way that is already stated is eating

healthy, and something else that could be done is dealing with emotions which could be

done by doing therapy or even just putting away time for yourself. Another detail is

trying to reduce certain issues in the health world. One issue which could be fixed is to

increase life expectancy and to decrease the amount of common diseases (Can You

Lengthen Your Life?). Something that is trying to be fixed is to reduce premature death

and get people cheaper health care (Wellbeing-Better Health Channel). There are many

ways to stay healthy and keep a good well-being, and there are many ways to reduce

diseases.

This goal is an issue because there are many diseases around the world that still
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don’t have a cure. People are constantly dying because of all these diseases. One reason

is because many diseases do not have cures for them yet. These diseases are causing kids

to die. There are just so many issues involving the health world, and an example of this is

a stroke because most people don’t know how they occur which in the future could

become a huge problem. Something that has been stated many times in this is that global

health is a huge issue. Something that supports this is that non communicable diseases

have been increasing and these can be injuries, heart disease, strokes and many more.

Studies have shown that so many health problems have been increasing in developing

countries because they barely even get health care (Non-communicable diseases in

developing countries). A good thing about the health world as of now is that infectious

diseases have been decreasing worldwide. One reason is that they have been finding

many cures for diseases such as malaria which causes deaths have decreased (Sustainable

Development Goals). People have been working extremely hard to make cures for

diseases so that death rates will go down. Health has become a big issue to people and

has caused many deaths, but the health world has been working hard to decrease this

issue globally.

I believe that the UN chose a good issue because health and well being is one of

the biggest issues in the world. By 2030 some of their goals is to end all deaths of kids

under the age of 5 years old, reduce maternal mortality and many more (Sustainable

Development Goals). They are also working hard on just strengthen health worldwide

and make it more common in developing countries. The health industry is also making

sure that people are doing well and not hurting themselves. There goal is to entirely end
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drug abuse, substance use, using alcohol in harmful way and they are working on

controlling the use of tobacco because people are overusing it (Sustainable Development

Goals). This is going to be end on a sad note but people are dying every day because

they have bad health. As of right now they don’t have many cures for diseases which is

causing people to die. People should prevent the spread of diseases by try to disinfect

things as much as possible and if you think you are getting sick you should stay away

from people. People need to also work on improving their well being at their own home.

Some ways to do this is by increasing self confidence, expressing emotions and building

good relationships. If you want to calm yourself down in a fun way to do that could be

yoga or just put on a diffuser. If anything ever gets so bad you may even just want to try

going to therapy. Overall this goal is extremely important to the world because our health

still has a lot of issues and can still be fixed if people help raise awareness for it.
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Works Cited

“Health - United Nations Sustainable Development.” ​United Nations​, United Nations,

www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/health/​.

“Can You Lengthen Your Life?” ​National Institutes of Health​, U.S. Department of Health and

Human Services, 19 July 2017, newsinhealth.nih.gov/2016/06/can-you-lengthen-your-life.

Department of Health & Human Services. “Wellbeing.” ​Better Health Channel​, Department of

Health & Human Services, 31 Aug. 2014,

www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/healthyliving/wellbeing​.

UNDP,​

www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/sustainable-development-goals/goal-3-good-health-and-w

ell-being.html​.

Islam, Sheikh Mohammed Shariful et al. “Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in developing

countries: a symposium report” ​Globalization and health​ vol. 10 81. 11 Dec. 2014,

doi:10.1186/s12992-014-0081-9

United Nations​, United Nations, in.one.un.org/page/sustainable-development-goals/sdg-3-2/.

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The Global Goals,​ ​www.globalgoals.org/3-good-health-and-well-being​.

Sample Essays, 10 Sept. 2016, newyorkessays.com/essay-what-is-good-health-2/.