Healthy People 1990

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Healthy People 1990 was an outgrowth of the landmark 1979 publication, Healthy People: The Surgeon General’s Report on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (1), which provided the foundation for the first national health promotion and disease prevention initiative. The report identified five broad national goals, one for each of the five major stages of life (infants, children, adolescents and young adults, adults, and older adults); premature mortality and morbidity were also highlighted. To achieve these goals, Promoting Health/Preventing Disease: Objectives for the Nation (2), released in 1980, set out 226 quantifiable objectives with targets to be achieved by 1990. The objectives were organized in the 15 priority areas identified in the 1979 Surgeon General’s report (1).

As Healthy People became an established initiative over the next few decades with the development of Healthy People 2000, 2010, 2020, and 2030, the goals and objectives for the nation published in 1979 and 1980 became known as Healthy People 1990. The final assessment of progress for the Healthy People 1990 objectives was published in Health, United States, 1991 (3).

References

  1. U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Healthy people: The surgeon general’s report on health promotion and disease prevention. 1979. Available from: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED186357.pdf.
  2. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Promoting health/preventing disease: Objectives for the Nation. 1984. Available from: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED209206.pdf.
  3. National Center for Health Statistics. Health, United States and prevention profile 1991. Hyattsville, Maryland. 1992. Available from: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus91acc.pdf.