Healthy People
Healthy People provides science-based, national goals and objectives with 10-year targets designed to guide national health promotion and disease prevention efforts to improve the health of all people in the United States. For four decades, Healthy People has established benchmarks and monitored progress over time in order to:
- Identify nationwide health improvement priorities.
- Increase public awareness and understanding of the determinants of health, disease, and disability and the opportunities for progress.
- Provide measurable objectives and goals that are applicable at the national, State, and local levels.
- Engage multiple sectors to take actions to strengthen policies and improve practices that are driven by the best available evidence and knowledge.
- Identify critical research, evaluation, and data collection needs.
Healthy People 2020 contains about 1,200 objectives in 42 Topic Areas designed to serve as this decades framework for improving the health of all people in the United States.
What's New
Healthy People 2020
- Leading Health Indicator (LHI) series on Clinical Preventive Servicesexternal icon (11/2019)
- Leading Health Indicator (LHI) series on Reproductive and Sexual Healthexternal icon(10/2019)
- Leading Health Indicator (LHI) series on Access to Health Servicesexternal icon (10/2019)
- Leading Health Indicator (LHI) series on Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesityexternal icon (09/2019)
- Leading Health Indicator (LHI) series on Mental Healthexternal icon (07/2019)
- Leading Health Indicator (LHI) series on Oral Healthexternal icon (06/2019)
- Leading Health Indicator (LHI) series on Maternal, Infant, and Child Healthexternal icon (5/2019)
- Leading Health Indicator (LHI) series on Substance Abuse external icon(04/2019)
- Leading Health Indicator (LHI) series on Tobaccoexternal icon (03/2019)
- Leading Health Indicator (LHI) series on Injury and Violenceexternal icon (02/2019)
Page last reviewed: December 6, 2019, 07:35 AM
Content source: CDC/National Center for Health Statistics