India, Germany and Europe. A Spatial Perspective at SDG 3 on Good Health and Well-Being.

Abstract

Responding to crucial challenges in urban and rural development the United Nations decided on the New Urban Agenda and on the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This publication checks the progress made in implementing the New Urban Agenda against the SDGs and vice versa. In order to understand the spatial patterns, a national and supranational spatial perspective is taken on some of the SDGs. Given the significance of good health and well-being – particularly with regard to pandemics – SDG 3 thus covers: Life expectancy at birth and teenage parenthood; Medical practitioners and hospital beds; Infant and toddler mortality.