26 September, 2017
On 12 September 2017, prestigious medical journal, The Lancet published a Performance on Sustainable Development Goal Index, which ranked Singapore first for progress made in achieving a set of UN's sustainable development goals. The UN goal is to reduce premature deaths from such diseases by a third by 2030. In particular, they hope to target cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
In order to project how close countries would get to the UN goals by 2030, researchers looked at data for 33 health-related indicators, including tuberculosis, malaria, access to clean water and proper sanitation. Singapore scored 86.6 on the index, which was the highest score among all 188 countries studied, outperforming the Scandinavian nations, Switzerland and Britain.
Singapore showed good progress for vaccine coverage, but scored poorly for indicators pertaining to overweight children, airborne pollutants, and child sexual abuse.
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