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In 2015, 193 nations committed to the United Nations sustainable development goals (SDGs), defined in Transforming our world: the 2030 agenda for sustainable development. 1 The SDGs are based on the principle of advancing equity and leaving no one behind in the process of economic, social and environmental development. The health-related targets of the SDG agenda, emphasized under SDG 3, reiterate this call for equity, with the overarching aim of ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages. The SDGs require concerted efforts across diverse stakeholders within and outside the health sector to achieve improvements in the many conditions that affect health and the opportunity for health, such as poverty, gender discrimination, lack of educational opportunities, degradation of the natural environment and poor working conditions. As countries work to improve health and its …