Brazil in 2030? Brazilian health specialists’ perceptions of the country’s potential to comply with the Brazil heading to 2030 SDGs

ABSTRACT

The objective of this article is to analyze Brazilian health specialists’ perceptions of the possibilities of country achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, especially in regard to the targets of SDG 3 – Good Health and Well-Being. Specialists are defined as the main author of an article in the field of public health, published between September 2012 and 2017 in periodicals indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) platform. Their perceptions were collected using a distance research technique, with the use of an electronic research instrument, received and returned by e-mail, by 884 respondents (research universe), Between 22 January and 2 February 2018 (field of research). Respondents, with a ‘medium’ and ‘high’ knowledge of SDGs, considered Brazil’s possibilities of achieving any of the 17 objectives as ‘low.’ For them, the country should prioritize SDG 4 (Quality Education) and 1 (End Poverty), also seen as those that would contribute most to achieving SDG 3 (Health and Welfare). In terms of policy recommendations that could help achieve the nine targets of SDG 3, respondents stressed ‘poverty reduction’, ‘universal primary care’ and ‘education’ as priorities.

KEYWORDS
Sustainable development goals; Health policy; Evidence-informed policy