Global Civil Society & the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
Ensuring healthy lives and promoting the well-being at all ages is essential to sustainable development.
Significant strides have been made in increasing life expectancy and reducing some of the common killers associated with child and maternal mortality, but working towards achieving the target of less than 70 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births by 2030 would require improvements in skilled delivery care.
Achieving the target of reducing premature deaths due to incommunicable diseases by 1/3 by the year 2030 would also require more efficient technologies for clean fuel use during cooking and education on the risks of tobacco.
Many more efforts are needed to fully eradicate a wide range of diseases and address many different persistent and emerging health issues. By focusing on providing more efficient funding of health systems, improved sanitation and hygiene, increased access to physicians and more tips on ways to reduce ambient pollution, significant progress can be made in helping to save the lives of millions.
Name | Acronym | Founded | City HQ | Country/Territory HQ | Type I | Type II | Type III |
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World Health Partners |
WHP | 2008 | San Francisco CA | USA | G | ||
World Health Professions Alliance |
WHPA | 2000 | Geneva | Switzerland | F | Professional Bodies | |
World Health Risk Management Centre |
WHRMC | Tokyo | Japan | E | |||
World Health Summit Foundation |
WHS Foundation | 2009 | Berlin | Germany | F | f | Foundations |
World Healthcare Forum Foundation |
2012 | The Hague | Netherlands | J | f | Foundations | |
World Heart Federation |
WHF | 1978 | Geneva | Switzerland | B | y | International Federations |
World Help |
WH | 1991 | Forest VA | USA | G | Humanitarian Organizations | |
World Hepatitis Alliance |
WHA | 2007 | London | UK | B | y | International Federations |
World Hydrothermal Organization |
1977 | Cuntis | Spain | D | |||
World Igbo Congress |
WIC | 1994 | Houston TX | USA | G | ||
World in Need |
WIN International Associates | 1991 | Crowborough | UK | G | Humanitarian Organizations | |
World Information Transfer |
WIT | 1986 | New York NY | USA | F | Humanitarian Organizations | |
World Initiative for Soy in Human Health |
WISHH | St Louis MO | USA | G | |||
World Instant Noodles Association |
WINA | 1997 | Tokyo | Japan | F | ||
World Institute for Holistic Hoofcare |
WIHH | J | j | Institutes | |||
World Institute of Pain |
WIP | 1993 | Winston-Salem NC | USA | E | j | Institutes |
World Institute on Disability |
WID | 1983 | Oakland CA | USA | G | j | Institutes |
World Legal Medicine Association |
Buenos Aires | Argentina | D | ||||
World Lupus Federation |
WLF | 2015 | Washington DC | USA | C | ||
World Masters Athletics |
WMA | 1977 | Tijuana | Mexico | B | Alumni and Veterans | |
World Medical Association |
WMA | 1947 | Ferney-Voltaire | France | B | Humanitarian Organizations | |
World Medical Relief |
WMR | 1953 | Southfield MI | USA | N | ||
World Medical Tennis Society |
WMTS | 1970 | Omaha NE | USA | C | ||
World Mercy Fund |
WMF | 1969 | Waterford VA | USA | G | f | Funds, Funds |
World Missing Children Organization |
WMCO | Sliedrecht | Netherlands | N | |||
World Missionary Evangelism |
WME | 1958 | Dallas TX | USA | F | ||
World Muscle Society |
WMS | 1995 | Adstock | UK | C | v | |
World Natural Health Organization |
WNHO | 1983 | Burlington WA | USA | G | ||
World Natural Medicine Foundation |
WNMF | 1980 | Edmonton AB | Canada | G | f | Foundations |
World of Children |
WOC | 1998 | Pleasanton CA | USA | G | ||
World Order Models Project |
WOMP | 1966 | F | v | |||
World Organization - Ovulation Method - Billings |
WOOMB-International | 1977 | Melbourne | Australia | F | ||
World Organization for Early Childhood Education |
1948 | Seoul | Korea Rep | C | y | International Federations | |
World Organization for Prenatal Education |
1991 | Athens | Greece | D | |||
World Organization for Research and Development into the Therapeutic Use of Motion Pictures |
1988 | London | UK | G | |||
World Organization of Family Doctors |
WONCA | 1970 | Bangkok | Thailand | C | ||
World Organization of Talented Children |
WOTC | 1995 | Chisinau | Moldova | D | ||
World Organization Volleyball for Disabled |
WOVD | 1992 | Roermond | Netherlands | C | ||
World Orthopaedic Concern |
WOC | 1975 | F | ||||
World Pancreatic Cancer Coalition |
WPCC | 2016 | C | y | International Federations | ||
World Parkinson Coalition |
WPC | 2004 | New York NY | USA | F | c | Conference Series |
World Pensions Council |
WPC | J | Institutes | ||||
World Pharmacists |
1997 | Athens | Greece | G | v | Humanitarian Organizations | |
World Pranic Healers Foundation |
1990 | Manila | Philippines | J | f | Foundations | |
World Prematurity Network |
2011 | Munich | Germany | F | y | International Federations | |
World Professional Association For Transgender Health |
WPATH | 1979 | Minneapolis MN | USA | E | Professional Bodies | |
World Public Health Nutrition Association |
WPHNA | 2006 | London | UK | B | ||
World Radiography Education Trust Fund |
WRETF | 1969 | Abingdon | UK | K | f | Funds, Foundations |
World Recreation Association of the Deaf |
WRAD | 1985 | Quartz Hill CA | USA | D | ||
World Reference Laboratory for Foot and Mouth Diseases |
WRLFMD | 1958 | Pirbright | UK | G |