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Healthy People 2030 focuses on improving health care quality and making sure all people get the health care services they need. Helping health care providers communicate more effectively can help improve health and well-being.
Getting preventive care reduces the risk for diseases, disabilities, and death — yet millions of people in the United States don’t get recommended preventive health care services. 1 Healthy People 2030 focuses on increasing preventive care for people of all ages.
Healthy People 2030 includes objectives focused on improving health by helping people get timely, high-quality health care services. Learn more about health care access and quality.
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (formerly known as the Institute of Medicine) define access to health care as the “timely use of personal health services to achieve the best possible health outcomes.” 1 Many people face barriers that prevent or limit access to needed health care services, which may increase the ...
Social determinants of health (SDOH) are the conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks. Healthy People 2030 groups SDOH into 5 domains: Economic stability. Social and community context.
Effective health communication is critical to health and well-being. Healthy People 2030 focuses on improving health communication so that people can easily understand and act on health information. Health information and messages are often overly complex, making them hard to understand and use.
Health policy can have a major impact on health and well-being. 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.
Healthy People 2030 addresses both personal health literacy and organizational health literacy and provides the following definitions: Personal health literacy is the degree to which individuals have the ability to find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others.
Health care during pregnancy is called prenatal care. Getting prenatal care can help you have a healthy pregnancy and a healthier baby. It also lowers the risk of your baby being born too early, which can lead to health problems for your baby.
The framework encompasses the central ideas and function of Healthy People 2030. The purpose of the framework is to: Provide context and rationale for Healthy People 2030’s approach. Communicate the principles that underlie decisions about the initiative. Situate the 2030 initiative in Healthy People’s history.