Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

Ensuring healthy lives and promoting the well-being for all 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. Major progress has been made on increasing access to clean water and sanitation, reducing malaria, tuberculosis, polio and the spread of HIV/AIDS. However, many more efforts are needed to fully eradicate a wide range of diseases and address many different persistent and emerging health issues.

Industrial Engineer (IE) Michael Washington of the CDC discusses his team’s statistical models that help health systems monitor resources for dealing with – and tracing the explosion of – COVID cases, and how his team’s

Water Brings Communities Together in Post-Earthquake Nepal

May 22, 2020 sustainableiise Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages, Goal 6: Ensure access to water and sanitation for all

USAID launched the Safaa Paani (“Clean Water”) program to help disaster-stricken communities like Dharapani restore access to safe water. To date, the program has improved water access and public health outcomes for more than 45,000

Mission Imaginable: Putting ISE principles to work in Haiti

July 27, 2019 sustainableiise Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries, Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns, Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere, Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages, Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning, Goal 8: Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all, News

Purdue University graduate Lauren Neder moved to Haiti to help navigate cultural and logistical challenges at Imagine Missions school, and help establish multiple programs to address sustainability in the island nation. Her background in Industrial

Using Geographic Information Systems to Improve Healthcare Services

March 19, 2018 sustainableiise Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

This paper, authored by members of the United States Air Force, proposes the integration of a Geographic Information System (GIS) with the healthcare system. GIS is used to understand and describe spatial relationships and behaviors

Optimization in Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Inventory Management for Disaster Planning

October 30, 2017 sustainableiise Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

Natural disasters are becoming increasingly frequent in regions throughout the United States. This study performed by researchers at Binghamton University focuses on how to prepare pharmaceutical supply chains for the effects of natural disasters. During

Leveraging IE to Enable Behavioral Healthcare Success

June 5, 2016 sustainableiise Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages, Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

According to the American Psychological Association, 20% of the veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder or major depression, yet many of them seek help outside of the VA system

Crossroads of Health Care Systems and Sustainability

June 18, 2012 sustainableiise Applied Solutions Conference 2012, Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

Description This presentation will benchmark and explore the space of sustainability in health care systems. Showing what sustainability is, what it means to health care systems, why this area is taboo to Americans, and some

Managing Process Change in a Challenging Public Sector Environment

May 31, 2010 sustainableiise Applied Solutions Conference 2010, Goal 11: Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable, Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

Description Many process improvement efforts are partial or complete failures. Process improvement in the public sector is even more daunting. This report describes the challenges, program components, change management strategy, and lessons learned from a

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IISE Podcast: Modeling Reality, COVID and Ebola Style, with the CDC’s Michael Washington