UN SDGs as 17 Health Determinants

As ‘we the peoples of the United Nations’ — our advocacy aims to achieve the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) — all as factors in recovering and maintaining health. Today we would call all these factors 'Health Determinants.'  

​As we prepare to globally celebrate the 2020 Bicentenary of Florence Nightingale's birth, her insights still have fresh relevance for achieving a healthy world. In fact, her life and work anticipated these SDGs.

​Because Nightingale's work for global health was so broad — encompassing many 'health determinants' such as poverty, nutrition, education, the rights and welfare of  women and girls, as well as clean water, clean air and a healthy environment — we are focusing our '2020' work to  encourage this advocacy for the 17 UN SDGs.  

Thus, NIGH's '2020 Vision' is to actively engage — in Nightingale's name — as many as possible of the world's 20+ million nurses, midwives, concerned citizens — and many other stakeholders — dedicated to achieving global health in our time.

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See our new webpage >>> detailing the connections between Florence Nightingale and the UN SDGs as 17 'Health Determinants.
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17 New UN Sustainable Development Goals • SDGs 

Photo Credits: TOP: Ms. Shoko Noda, UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative to the Maldives, participated in a public dialogue on the new Sustainable Development Goals — hosted at the Maldives UN Office. Used with required attribution to the United Nations. LOWER: SDGs Chart from the UN Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform, also used with required attribution. Above e-Nightingale graphic from NIGH's archives.