Healthy People 2030 Related to Physical Activity, Nutrition, and Obesity

Key points

Healthy People 2030 sets data-driven national objectives to improve health and well-being over the next decade. Healthy People 2030 includes 359 core — or measurable — objectives as well as developmental and research objectives. Below are the indicators and objectives that align with the work of CDC's Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity (DNPAO).

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Leading health indicators

Of the core Healthy People 2030 objectives, there is a subset of 23 leading health indicators. This subset helps organizations, communities, and states focus their resources and efforts to improve the health and well-being of all people. Four leading health indicators are directly related to DNPAO's work:

In addition to the leading health indicators, the objectives below are related to DNPAO's work.

Neighborhood and built environment

Increase the proportion of:

Developmental objectives

In addition to core objectives, developmental objectives represent specific high-priority public health issues. These public health issues are associated with evidence-based interventions but do not yet have reliable baseline data.

The developmental objectives related to DNPAO are to increase the proportion of:

Research objectives

Research objectives represent public health issues with a high health or economic burden. These public health issues can also have significant disparities between population groups. These public health issues are not yet associated with evidence-based interventions.

Objectives are to increase the proportion of:

Overall health and well-being measures

Overall health and well-being measures are broad outcome measures intended to assess the Healthy People 2030 vision. This vision is of a society where all people can achieve their full potential for health and well-being across the lifespan. Unlike the leading health indicators and core objectives, these measures do not have targets.

Well-Being

Healthy life expectancy

Mortality and health summary

Objective code abbreviations

  • A—Arthritis
  • DO—Developmental Objective
  • ECBP—Educational and Community-Based Programs
  • EMC—Early and Middle Childhood
  • MICH—Maternal, Infant, and Child Health
  • NWS—Nutrition and Weight Status
  • OA—Older Adults
  • OHM—Overall Health and Well–Being Measures
  • PA—Physical Activity
  • RO—Research Objective
  • SH—Sleep Health