Priority Areas - Healthy People 2030 (2024)

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Priority Areas - Healthy People 2030? ›

Leading Health Indicators (LHIs) are a small subset of high-priority objectives selected to drive action toward improving health and well-being.

Leading Health Indicators (LHIs) are a small subset of high-priority objectives selected to drive action toward improving health and well-being.

Use Healthy People 2030's search tool to easily find information relevant to your work. You can filter information based on your interests to find topics, objectives with baseline data and targets, and evidence-based resources.

Healthy People 2030 focuses on promoting evidence-based cancer screening and prevention strategies — and on improving care and survivorship for people with cancer. The cancer death rate has declined in recent decades, but over 600,000 people still die from cancer each year in the United States.

Healthy People 2030 is the fifth iteration of the initiative. It builds on knowledge gained and lessons learned to address the latest public health priorities. A society in which all people can achieve their full potential for health and well-being across the lifespan.

Goal: Promote the health and safety of people at work.

Healthy People 2030 focuses on preventing work-related injuries, illnesses, and deaths by making workplaces safer.

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.

What is the good health by 2030? ›

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.

Healthy People 2030 focuses on keeping people safe and healthy through laws and policies at the local, state, territorial, and federal level. Evidence-based health policies can help prevent disease and promote health. For example, smoke-free policies can help prevent smoking initiation and increase quit attempts.

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

Targets are set using a minimally statistically significant change from baseline (at the 0.05 level of significance), assuming the same standard error, or SE, for the target as for the baseline. This target-setting method requires that the estimates have SEs.

The NHPA initiative provides a national approach to tackling the five identified priority areas: cardiovascular health, cancer control, injury prevention and control, mental health and diabetes mellitus.

Our goal is to ensure that a billion more people have universal health coverage, to protect a billion more people from health emergencies, and provide a further billion people with better health and well-being.