Data Sources - Healthy People 2030 (2024)

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Where does Healthy People 2030 get its data? ›

Data for Healthy People 2030 (HP2030) come from more than 80 data systems. Most are federal, including many HHS agencies (including NCHS, CDC, AHRQ, HRSA, NIH, FDA, and SAMHSA) as well as non-HHS agencies (including USDA; EPA; the Departments of Justice, Labor, Education, and Transportation; and the US Census Bureau).

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With the Healthy People 2030 objective search tool, you can easily find data that's relevant to your work. For example, you can: Use keywords or objective titles to search for objectives.

On August 18, ODPHP released Healthy People 2030 — the fifth iteration of the Healthy People initiative. Building on knowledge gained over the past 4 decades, Healthy People 2030 sets national objectives to address the nation's most critical public health priorities.

U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, (2021). Healthy people 2030. Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. https://health.gov/healthypeople Citation format for the above resources are as follows (in-text followed by parenthetical).

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.

Achieving health and well-being requires eliminating health disparities, achieving health equity, and attaining health literacy.

Healthy People 2030 sets data-driven national objectives to improve health and well-being over the next decade.

Current Healthy People stakeholders are often public health professionals, academics, and students who are based in public health settings (e.g., tribal, state, territorial, and local public health departments, academic departments, foundations, and others).

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.

Is Healthy People updated every 10 years? ›

Released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) every decade since 1980, Healthy People identifies science-based objectives with targets to monitor progress and motivate and focus action.

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.

Healthy People 2030 focuses on helping health care providers and patients access health IT and use it more effectively. People who can access electronic health information can better track and manage their health care. But accessing and understanding electronic health information can be difficult.

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.

Since 1980, the Healthy People initiative has set measurable objectives to improve the health and well-being of people nationwide. At the beginning of every decade, we launch a new iteration of the initiative that addresses the latest public health priorities and challenges.