Healthy People 2030 | health.gov (2024)

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What is the Healthy People 2030 plan? ›

Healthy People 2030's overarching goals are to: Attain healthy, thriving lives and well-being free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death. Eliminate health disparities, achieve health equity, and attain health literacy to improve the health and well-being of all.

Criticism of the Healthy People Initiative includes difficulties in distinguishing the effects of personal health choices from healthcare services, a lack of long-term evaluations, and a generalized approach that may not suit individual needs.

Healthy People 2030 focuses on improving food handling practices to prevent foodborne illnesses. Bacteria like Campylobacter, E. coli, Listeria, and Salmonella can grow in food that isn't handled properly. People who eat contaminated food can get sick, and some even die.

Healthy People 2030 includes 359 core — or measurable — objectives. This is a change from Healthy People 2020, which had more than 1,000 measurable objectives. With fewer objectives, the workgroups were able to avoid overlap and prioritize the most pressing public health issues.

In 1980, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the first set of Healthy People 10-year objectives. Healthy People 2030 is the fifth iteration of the Healthy People initiative.

The Healthy People initiative is designed to guide national health promotion and disease prevention efforts to improve the health of the nation.

Healthy People 2030 includes 359 core — or measurable — objectives as well as developmental and research objectives.

OVERARCHING GOALS

Attain healthy, thriving lives and well-being, free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death. 2.

How has Healthy People 2030 changed? ›

For Healthy People 2030, the biggest change is that we've reduced the number of objectives. With fewer objectives, we avoid overlap and prioritize the most pressing public health issues — and make it easier for you to find the objectives that are relevant to your work.

Measuring health disparities is essential to advancing health equity. That's why Healthy People 2030 monitors differences across population groups as it tracks progress toward meeting objectives. Healthy People data tools summarize and display these health disparities to help identify priority populations.

The Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health's (OASH) Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) leads and manages the Healthy People initiative in collaboration with a diverse group of stakeholders, partners, and organizations, including NCHS, workgroups (primarily HHS subject matter experts), the ...

Healthy People 2030 focuses on reducing unintended pregnancy by increasing use of birth control and family planning services. Unintended pregnancy is linked to outcomes like preterm birth and postpartum depression. Interventions to increase use of birth control are critical for preventing unintended pregnancies.

The “Big 5” are five of the most common pathogens that are easily transmitted through food and cause severe foodborne illness. These five pathogens are: Shigella, E. Coli, Salmonella, Hepatitis A, and Norovirus.

OVERARCHING GOALS

Attain healthy, thriving lives and well-being, free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death. 2. Eliminate health disparities, achieve health equity, and attain health literacy to improve the health and well-being of all.

The Global Goals and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development seek to end poverty and hunger, realise the human rights of all, achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, and ensure the lasting protection of the planet and its natural resources.