Achieving Sustainable, Community-Based Health in Detroit Through Adaptation of the UNSDGs

<p>Background</p><p>In 2012, the Rio+20 meeting initiated the concept of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a continuation of the Millennium Development Goals. The resulting document “The Future We Want” is best conceived as a roadmap toward poverty eradication and sustain...

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Autores principales:	Alexander Plum, Linda Kaljee
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Publicado:	Ubiquity Press 2017
Materias:	sustainability community development global health Detroit Infectious and parasitic diseases RC109-216 Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:fb340ad754fc48e6870a7eefce90feb82021-12-02T05:39:31ZAchieving Sustainable, Community-Based Health in Detroit Through Adaptation of the UNSDGs2214-999610.1016/j.aogh.2016.10.014https://doaj.org/article/fb340ad754fc48e6870a7eefce90feb82017-03-01T00:00:00Zhttps://annalsofglobalhealth.org/articles/215https://doaj.org/toc/2214-9996<p>Background</p><p>In 2012, the Rio+20 meeting initiated the concept of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a continuation of the Millennium Development Goals. The resulting document “The Future We Want” is best conceived as a roadmap toward poverty eradication and sustainable development. Although the SDGs were developed for low- and middle-income countries, many of these same issues face low-resource cities and communities in higher-income countries.</p><p>Objectives</p><p>The aim of this study was to use the SDGs as a platform to develop health-related goals for the city of Detroit.</p><p>Methods</p><p>A 1-day workshop was convened in October 2015 including 55 representatives from government, academia, and community- and faith-based organizations. Four health-related SDGs were discussed: food security (SDG2); ensuring healthy lives at all ages (SDG3); access to potable water (SDG6); and making cities inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable living environments (SDG11). Workshop attendees broke into 4 groups to determine how the SDG targets for these 4 goals could be adapted for Detroit. At the end of the day, each group presented its decisions to the larger group.</p><p>Findings</p><p>Workshop participants expressed that the SDGs empower local communities to respond to their unique health challenges and to see themselves as part of a larger more global conversation about development and sustainability. Participants suggested that inclusive and participatory means of decision making were a significant component of the SDGs and that such a process is the direction needed to make community-focused changes in Detroit. Additionally, shortly after the workshop, a roundtable of participants representing 5 community partners began to meet monthly and has become an advocacy group for public health and addressing the city-order water shutoffs in neighborhoods throughout Detroit.</p><p>Conclusions</p>For participants and organizers, the workshop reinforced the hypothesis that the SDGs are relevant to Detroit and other low-resource cities in the United States.Alexander PlumLinda KaljeeUbiquity Pressarticlesustainabilitycommunity developmentglobal healthDetroitInfectious and parasitic diseasesRC109-216Public aspects of medicineRA1-1270ENAnnals of Global Health, Vol 82, Iss 6, Pp 981-990 (2017)
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description	<p>Background</p><p>In 2012, the Rio+20 meeting initiated the concept of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a continuation of the Millennium Development Goals. The resulting document “The Future We Want” is best conceived as a roadmap toward poverty eradication and sustainable development. Although the SDGs were developed for low- and middle-income countries, many of these same issues face low-resource cities and communities in higher-income countries.</p><p>Objectives</p><p>The aim of this study was to use the SDGs as a platform to develop health-related goals for the city of Detroit.</p><p>Methods</p><p>A 1-day workshop was convened in October 2015 including 55 representatives from government, academia, and community- and faith-based organizations. Four health-related SDGs were discussed: food security (SDG2); ensuring healthy lives at all ages (SDG3); access to potable water (SDG6); and making cities inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable living environments (SDG11). Workshop attendees broke into 4 groups to determine how the SDG targets for these 4 goals could be adapted for Detroit. At the end of the day, each group presented its decisions to the larger group.</p><p>Findings</p><p>Workshop participants expressed that the SDGs empower local communities to respond to their unique health challenges and to see themselves as part of a larger more global conversation about development and sustainability. Participants suggested that inclusive and participatory means of decision making were a significant component of the SDGs and that such a process is the direction needed to make community-focused changes in Detroit. Additionally, shortly after the workshop, a roundtable of participants representing 5 community partners began to meet monthly and has become an advocacy group for public health and addressing the city-order water shutoffs in neighborhoods throughout Detroit.</p><p>Conclusions</p>For participants and organizers, the workshop reinforced the hypothesis that the SDGs are relevant to Detroit and other low-resource cities in the United States.
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Achieving Sustainable, Community-Based Health in Detroit Through Adaptation of the UNSDGs

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