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SGD 3: Homelessness, and Mental Health
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SGD 3: Homelessness, and Mental Health
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) represent an effort by the United Nations to
transform the world, with focus on eliminating poverty, ensuring good health for all people, and
protecting the planet. SDG, when launched, suggested a sustainable development agenda to be
achieved within 2030. Specifically, SDG 3, which focuses on good health and wellbeing, in
extenso was based on two principles, welfare is a state to different psychological and physical
wellbeing, and secondly, health is a universal right (Guegan et al. 2018). The United Kingdom
has made significant strides in ensuring the achievement of SDG 3, with universal health care
through the National Health Care Service playing a key role. However, homeless people remain
one of the key vulnerable populations in the United Kingdom. People who experience
homelessness in the county face significant inequalities in terms of both access to care, and
healthcare outcomes. These include a tri-morbidity of substance misuse, mental health problems,
and mental and physical mental health problems (Wells, 2024). These problems can be attributed
to an intersection of problems that homeless people face, including poverty, stress, stigma, lack
of social support, and unwillingness of homeless people to seek care (Rofle et al. 2020). The goal
of the current paper is to discuss how mental health problems affect people experiencing
homelessness and evidence-based strategies that the government can use be implemented to
alleviate mental health problems in the population.
Discussion
The Housing Act 1996 defines a homeless individual as an individual who has no
occupation, where such an individual lacks accommodation despite having express court
authorization or license to occupy a given state-backed residence (OECD, 2023). Between 2023
and 2024, it is estimated that around 370,000 people were experiencing homelessness in the UK
SGD 3: Homelessness, and Mental Health
Name
Affiliation
Course Unit: Course Name
Instructor
Date
, 2
SGD 3: Homelessness, and Mental Health
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) represent an effort by the United Nations to
transform the world, with focus on eliminating poverty, ensuring good health for all people, and
protecting the planet. SDG, when launched, suggested a sustainable development agenda to be
achieved within 2030. Specifically, SDG 3, which focuses on good health and wellbeing, in
extenso was based on two principles, welfare is a state to different psychological and physical
wellbeing, and secondly, health is a universal right (Guegan et al. 2018). The United Kingdom
has made significant strides in ensuring the achievement of SDG 3, with universal health care
through the National Health Care Service playing a key role. However, homeless people remain
one of the key vulnerable populations in the United Kingdom. People who experience
homelessness in the county face significant inequalities in terms of both access to care, and
healthcare outcomes. These include a tri-morbidity of substance misuse, mental health problems,
and mental and physical mental health problems (Wells, 2024). These problems can be attributed
to an intersection of problems that homeless people face, including poverty, stress, stigma, lack
of social support, and unwillingness of homeless people to seek care (Rofle et al. 2020). The goal
of the current paper is to discuss how mental health problems affect people experiencing
homelessness and evidence-based strategies that the government can use be implemented to
alleviate mental health problems in the population.
Discussion
The Housing Act 1996 defines a homeless individual as an individual who has no
occupation, where such an individual lacks accommodation despite having express court
authorization or license to occupy a given state-backed residence (OECD, 2023). Between 2023
and 2024, it is estimated that around 370,000 people were experiencing homelessness in the UK
