The Sustainable Development Goals, Psychosocial Disability, and the Meaning of Wellbeing in SDG3

In 2013, the World Health Organization (WHO) recognised the systematic neglect of mental health across the world. ¹ It is thus highly significant that in adopting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the global community for the first time included a target to ‘by 2030, reduce by one third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases through prevention and treatment and promote mental health and well-being’. ² This target forms part of SDG3 which aims to ‘ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages’. ³