Healthy People 2010 Goal Used in Modeling

22-3.  Increase the proportion of adults who engage in vigorous physical activity that promotes the development and maintenance of cardiorespiratory fitness 3 or more days per week for 20 or more minutes per occasion.

• Target: 30 percent.
• Baseline: 23 percent of adults aged 18 years and older engaged in vigorous physical activity 3 or more days per week for 20 or more minutes per occasion in 1997 (age adjusted to the year 2000 standard population).
• Target setting method: Better than the best.
• Data source: National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), CDC, NCHS.
• Reference: Healthy People 2010 Operational Definition