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GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING (GOAL 3)

Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.

Over the last 15 years, the number of childhood deaths has been cut in half. A substantial amount of money and resources have been spent to treating a wide range of preventable illnesses. The SDG goal for worldwide Good Health promotes healthy lifestyles, preventive measures and modern, efficient healthcare for everyone.

SDG 3 Workflows & Tutorials

These tutorials use problem-solving exercises to give you hands-on learning experiences with real-world GIS applications.

Policy mapping - Improve newborn health

Identify counties in need of low-birth-weight intervention, including by race.

Monitor malaria epidemics

Calculate malaria incidence per 1,000 people from 2000 to 2015 to support the Sustainable Development Goal.

Investigate prescribed drugs

Fight drug abuse by identifying suspicious prescription trends.

Analyze COVID-19 risk using ArcGIS Pro

Create risk maps for transmission, susceptibility, resource scarcity, and risk profiles for targeting intervention areas.

Build a community asset map

Build a map that includes data on historic policies, present day conditions and opportunities, and health outcomes in Baltimore, Maryland, to reveal areas of strengths and need.

Analyze urban heat using kriging

Find heat islands and at-risk populations in Madison, Wisconsin.

Create a policy map to address health conditions

Create a policy map to show where public health officials should address adult obesity.

Policy mapping - Safe streets to schools

Improve pedestrian and bicycle safety near schools in your city.

Where does healthcare cost the most?

Find hot spots in the cost of United States medical care.

Investigate pollution patterns with space-time analysis

Find regions of the world where pollution patterns are extreme or unusual.

Create a custom application to analyze cancer center catchment areas

Map cancer catchment areas and use infographics in an Experience Builder application to display health care-related demographics.

Create catchment areas for a cancer center

Make four potential catchment areas for an NCI-designated cancer center and compare them using infographics and a map series.

Create a custom infographic for a catchment area

Use data and infographics to deepen your understanding of the population around your cancer center.

Visualize inequity in toxic exposure risk

Calculate the toxic emissions burden on population groups in Charleston, West Virginia.

Customize a climate resilience index

Map where heat health interventions will be most impactful in your community by adding demographic variables that fit your local context.

Site a new hospital

Find possible locations for a new hospital based on spatial criteria.

Determine the most dangerous roads for drivers

In ArcGIS Pro, analyze spatial and temporal hot spots for car crashes along a road network.

SDG 3 Quick Reads & Videos

Sustainable Development Goals Solution Released

The Sustainable Development Goals solution delivers a set of capabilities that help governments share progress made on Sustainable Development Goals.

Maps Serve as a Compass for the SDGs

We have less than eight years to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Maps can help us better understand them and monitor progress.

Supporting Midwives Worldwide

Volunteers helped Direct Relief and the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) launch a hub site using ArcGIS Hub to provide data, information, and resources to the worldwide community of midwives.

GIS vs. Monkeypox

Geographic information is the common denominator for any public health crisis. Explore how experts can use GIS to slow the spread of monkeypox.

How the CDC Uses Location Technology to Fight Public Health Emergencies

Andy Dent from the CDC discusses the role location intelligence plays in the CDC's disease mitigation efforts.

Spatial Analysis of Opioid Use Gets Lifesaving Medicine to the Right Places

In Hamilton County, Tennessee, a research team used GIS to determine the most effective way to distribute naloxone kits among EMS stations.

Most recent hospitalization and mortality data for heart disease and stroke now available

CDC contributes new data layers for heart disease, stroke, and high blood pressure medication nonadherence to ArcGIS Living Atlas.

Smarter Data for Safer Roads

New Zealand Transportation Agency Models curve risks on rural roads to save lives

Real-Time Analytics and Computer Vision Mitigate Traffic Accidents

The spatial analysis capabilities in Esri’s software is used on the data collected by Mobileye's image recongition software.

Modeling Road Safety with Machine Learning

Road accidents are the 9th leading cause of death, killing 1.3 million people yearly. Learn how we can fight this using Machine Learning to predict accident probability.

Location-Based Simulations Aim to Increase COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake

Esri startup partner Epistemix models COVID-19 infections based on varying levels of population immunity.

Equitable and Speedy Vaccine Distribution

The real-time data sharing, analysis, visualization, and planning capabilities will be key to equitable and speedy vaccine distribution.

A Safer, Speedier Flu Clinic

A drive-through influenza clinic went digital, thanks to a team in Carlton County, Minnesota, that used Esri technology.

App Gives Southern Californians Up-to-Date Air Quality Information

Want to know when the air quality’s too bad to exercise outdoors or where to get alternative fuel? The South Coast AQMD app does both.

Battling Buyer’s Remorse with a Map

While residents are ultimately responsible for knowing what exists around them, could cities also provide greater access to such information?

Explore 19 Years of Global Air Quality in Living Atlas

ArcGIS Living Atlas now contains global air quality content derived from 19 years of NASA SEDAC data. See how air quality has changed over time.

Charting Opioid Diversion

ArcGIS AllSource is used to track opioid diversion, allowing auditors to spot irregularities between doctors, patients and treatment centers.

Creating the Dashboard for the Pandemic

Ensheng Dong, a student from Johns Hopkins University, created the dashboard the world uses to gauge the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

Inform Public Health Decisions with Maps

San Bernardino County Department of Public Health uses spatial analytics and smart maps to better understand the needs of communities.

Better Routing Leads to Better Healthcare

Route optimization created by GIS technology helps solve the riddle of getting service providers to appointments more efficiently.

Puerto Rico's Geographic Approach to Understand Opioid Misuse

Puerto Rico's opioid misuse response centers on collecting and monitoring data of overdose survivors.

SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being

Explore place-based stories, created with ArcGIS StoryMaps, that examine many elements affecting the health and well being of humans around the world.

GIS for Health Professionals

This site contains hands-on tutorials to enhance and modernize the geospatial capacity of health stakeholders.

5 Ways to Apply GIS to Influenza Response

In order to contain the spread of the flu, organizations can leverage GIS to mitigate its impact on communities.

An Information Hub Helps Curtail Developmental Challenges in Children

Interactive web maps let site visitors analyze poverty, childcare deserts, and health-care access to better aid youth in South Carolina.

Taking a Geographic Approach to Sickle Cell Disease Treatment

The social and environmental characteristics of the communities where patients live can be used to inform future treatment options.

Keeping California Healthy with the Help of a GIS Community

With no formal GIS education, an environmental scientist uses Esri educational resources to help his department mitigate the spread of foodborne illnesses in California.

Mapping the Battle Against Mosquito-Borne Diseases

Learn more about the technology that can aid health departments in tackling mosquito-borne illness.

Dashboard Helps Analyze and Predict Spread of Bird Flu

DashFLUboard allows users to monitor wild bird migrations and connect outbreaks of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) around the world.

Seeking to Eradicate Malaria, Zambia Turns to Geospatial Data

Zambia’s ministry of health uses geoenabled maps to help distribute insecticide-treated mosquito nets and indoor residual spray.

County Leverages GIS to Address Social Determinants of Health

A leading health-care provider adopted a geographic approach to analyze a county's health-care needs, find those who require assistance, and tailor outreach programs.

Applying GIS for Enhancing Network Health & Equity

Learn how to leverage GIS tools for complying with network adequacy and enhancing health equity.

Sightsavers Uses ArcGIS Pro to Expand Trachoma Treatment in Kenya

Sightsavers, an Esri Nonprofit Program participant, is using GIS to fight infection-based vision loss.

Esri Expands Global Public Health Initiative for Low-, Middle-Income Countries

The recent increase in awareness of global health needs inspired Esri to strengthen its commitment to public health around the world.

Mapping Communities at Risk from Extreme Heat

Deaths from extreme summer heat are preventable so public health teams use online maps that show neighborhoods likely to experience extreme heat.

FDA Uses ArcGIS for Retail Food Risk Factor Study

The US Food and Drug Administration is using GIS to collect data on foodborne illness risk factors in US retail food service facilities.