Table 1.
Sustainable development goals and emergency care
| SDG target | Community emergency care | Transport emergency care | First-level facility emergency care | Hospital-based emergency care |
| 1. Maternal mortality | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 2. Child mortality | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 3. AIDS/TB/malaria | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 4. Non-communicable diseases | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 5. Substance abuse | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 6. Road traffic injuries | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 7. Sexual and reproductive health | ✓ | |||
| 8. Climate/environment | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| 9. Essential medicines/vaccines | Defining and advocating for essential ‘life-saving’ medicines | |||
| 10. Universal health coverage | Emergency care should be the key component of ‘essential’ health services | |||
| 11. Health workforce | Thinking outside the box about healthcare workforce development | |||
| 12. Health crisis | Disaster preparedness and response | |||
SDG, sustainable development goal; TB, tuberculosis.