Towards sustainable development goal 3: The case of the Balkan countries
Towards sustainable development goal 3: The case of the Balkan countries

Summary/Abstract: The Sustainable Development Goal 3 frame-work, released by the United Nations in 2015, includes 27 targets to be achieved by 2030. Consequently, tracking of countries has gained importance in order to determine progress and take corrective actions. The aim of this study was to measure the performance of 11 Balkan countries with respect to Sustainable Development Goal 3 and determine the progress of these countries during the period 2010–2019. To measure the performance of the countries for the years 2010, 2015, and 2019, the entropy-based TOPSIS method, which is a widely used multi-criteria decision-making method, was used. The study analysed 14 available health indicators. Based on the performance scores obtained from the analyses, Greece, Slovenia, and Croatia were determined to be the first three successful countries, while Romania and Bulgaria were the worst performers during this period. This study found that despite improvements in some indicators, more attention should be paid to achieving targets such as deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents, suicide mortality rates, and prevention of communicable and non-communicable diseases.

• Details
• Contents