Our government and many health-related organizations put together a plan every 10 years to improve the health of the nation. This decade’s plan is called HealthyPeople 2030 – https://health.gov/healthypeople/about
Some of the main goals and target areas that Healthy People 2030 focuses on are:
- 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.
- Create social, physical, and economic environments that promote attaining the full potential for health and well-being for all.
- Promote healthy development, healthy behaviors, and well-being across all life stages.
- Engage leadership, key constituents, and the public across multiple sectors to take action and design policies that improve the health and well-being of all.
From: https://health.gov/healthypeople/about/healthy-people-2030-framework
It is important that we can measure how well the nation is achieving these goals. There are overall health and well-being measures, like life expectancy – https://health.gov/healthypeople/objectives-and-data/overall-health-and-well-being-measures; social determinants of health – https://health.gov/healthypeople/objectives-and-data/social-determinants-health; and leading health indicators – https://health.gov/healthypeople/objectives-and-data/leading-health-indicators.
HealthyPeople 2020 mid-course review shows which of the most important indicators of health are improving, staying the same, or declining – https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/data-search/midcourse-review/lhi
