SDG 8: Health, decent work and the economy: policy brief
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World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
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17 p.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) interconnect in their mission to create a better and more sustainable future. Improving health runs through them all. SDG 3 calls for healthy lives for all at all ages, while SDG 8 calls for decent work for all. Taking action on one SDG gets results in the other. This policy brief describes inextricable link between health and employment: good health is a motor of employment: it increases the chances of finding a job and of being more productive while at it; individuals in poor health are more likely to be unemployed or underemployed as poor health reduces their ability to work or to be productive; unemployment and nonstandard work have a strong negative effect both on mental and physical health and on well-being; health and employment can, consequently, reinforce each other in either a vicious or virtuous way. The health system is a key player in the economy as a major source of employment and of services to help people to keep healthy and to treat them in ill health.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) interconnect in their mission to create a better and more sustainable future. Improving health runs through them all. SDG 3 calls for healthy lives for all at all ages, while SDG 8 calls for decent work for all. Taking action on one SDG gets results in the other. This policy brief describes inextricable link between health and employment: good health is a motor of employment: it increases the chances of finding a job and of being more productive while at it; individuals in poor health are more likely to be unemployed or underemployed as poor health reduces their ability to work or to be productive; unemployment and nonstandard work have a strong negative effect both on mental and physical health and on well-being; health and employment can, consequently, reinforce each other in either a vicious or virtuous way. The health system is a key player in the economy as a major source of employment and of services to help people to keep healthy and to treat them in ill health.