Editorial: Towards 2030: Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing. A Sociological Perspective

Andrzej Klimczuk^1*Sangeeta Chattoo²Chimaraoke Izugbara^3,4Magdalena Klimczuk-Kochańska⁵Piotr Toczyski⁶Ashwani Kumar⁷Rubal Kanozia⁸Grzegorz Piotr Gawron⁹Ahmad Ozair^10,11

• ¹Department of Social Policy, Collegium of Socio-Economics, SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland
• ²Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of York, York, United Kingdom
• ³International Center for Research on Women, Washington, DC, United States
• ⁴School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
• ⁵Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Masovian, Poland
• ⁶Media and Communication Department, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, The Maria Grzegorzewska University, Warsaw, Poland
• ⁷Metagenomics and Secretomics Research Laboratory, Department of Botany, University of Allahabad, Prayagraj, India
• ⁸Department of Mass Communication and Media Studies, School of Information and Communication Studies, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, India
• ⁹Institute of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Silesia in Katowice, Katowice, Silesian, Poland
• ¹⁰Faculty of Medical Sciences, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
• ¹¹Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

is a provisional file, not the final typeset article This Research Topic explores the third Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) to "ensure healthy lives 29 and promote wellbeing for all at all ages," highlighting the severe impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. 30The pandemic has threatened to reverse prior improvements in maternal and child health, immunization 31 coverage, and reductions in communicable and non-communicable disease mortality while also 32 disrupting essential health services, shortening life expectancy, and worsening mental health issues and 33 healthcare access inequalities. This collection contains studies examining how social stratification, 34 geography, and culture affect health, aiming to inform policymakers on developing equitable public 35 health policies to address disparities and improve wellbeing. 36The collection " Raji and Demehin, 2023); (4) integrated innovation combining ideas from the fields the environmental 110 policy, social policy, and health policy (see Klimczuk, Klimczuk-Kochańska, and Felix, 2022); and (5) 111 privacy and ethical issues related to e-health solutions such as telemedicine platforms, mobile health 112 apps, and wearable health devices (see Wyllie et al., 2022).