Healthy People 2020

On Thursday, December 2, 2010 the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion launched Healthy People 2020.

For more than 30 years, Healthy People has provided a public health roadmap with science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of the nation. Healthy People has established benchmarks and monitored progress over time in order to encourage collaborations across sectors, guide individuals toward making informed health decisions, and measure the impact of prevention activities.

Leading Health Indicators

Healthy People 2020 contains 42 topic areas, nearly 600 objectives, which encompass 1,200 measures.

A smaller set of Healthy People 2020 objectives, called Leading Health Indicators(LHIs), has been selected to communicate high-priority health issues and actions that can be taken to address them.

Tobacco LHIs

• Adults who are current cigarette smokers
• Adolescents who smoked cigarettes in the past 30 days
• Children aged 3 to 11 years exposed to secondhand smoke

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Online Resources

• Healthy People 2020
• Health Indicators Warehouse
• State Tobacco Activities Tracking and Evaluation (STATE) System

Stay Connected with Healthy People

• Subscribe to the Healthy People E-mail Updates
• Join the Healthy People Consortium
• Follow Healthy People on Twitter
• Connect With Healthy People on LinkedIn
• View the Latest Healthy People Videos on YouTube
• Find the Healthy People Coordinator in Your State

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Tobacco Use Goal

Reduce illness, disability, and death related to tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure.

Key Areas

The Healthy People 2020 Tobacco Use objectives are organized into 3 key areas:

1. Tobacco Use Prevalence: Implementing policies to reduce tobacco use and initiation among youth and adults.
2. Health System Changes: Adopting policies and strategies to increase access, affordability, and use of smoking cessation services and treatments.
3. Social and Environmental Changes: Establishing policies to reduce exposure to secondhand smoke, increase the cost of tobacco, restrict tobacco advertising, and reduce illegal sales to minors.

Each objective includes a nationally representative and reliable data source, baseline estimate, and target for specific improvements to be achieved by the year 2020.

Tobacco Use Objectives