Intervention from the floor by Marianne Haslegrave on behalf of the Post-2015 Health Coalition
Wednesday, March 25, 2015 at 4:52PM A common theme this morning has been health and well-being. Good health is crosscutting and has an impact on every other goal.
We respect the ongoing technical work of the UN Statistical Commission to develop a robust set of priority indicators. This should not preclude agreeing the conceptual and technical framework that will capture progress towards health and wellbeing for all.
We would ask Member States to consider a global indicator on healthy life expectancy so that by 2030 everyone will be living longer, better lines.
Such a global indicator would depend on national level data that are already being collected and could be monitored under a series of national, regional and thematic indicators, which will address the particular needs of each country.
The achievement of the post-2015 development agenda will depend to a large extent on the health and wellbeing of everyone. Longer healthy life expectancy is a universal ambition.