Economic Stability - Healthy People 2030 (2024)

FAQs

What are the 5 main goals of the Healthy People 2030 initiative? ›

Healthy People 2030's overarching goals are to: 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.

SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH

Economic security for households and residents is essential for the health and wellbeing of families, neighborhoods and for local and national economies. Economic Stability can be described as the ability to access resources that is essential to one's life and well-being.

Criticism of the Healthy People Initiative includes difficulties in distinguishing the effects of personal health choices from healthcare services, a lack of long-term evaluations, and a generalized approach that may not suit individual needs.

Goals of the Healthy People 2030 initiative include promoting quality of life, avoiding preventable diseases, and achieving health equity for all. It does not aim to promote medication over other treatment forms nor decrease recreational areas.

Healthy People 2030 has a strong focus on eliminating health disparities and creating equitable opportunities for people to live healthy lives.

Healthy People 2030 includes 3 types of objectives — core, developmental, and research — that are maintained throughout the decade.

Economic stability means that people have the resources essential to a healthy life. Factors affecting economic stability include affordable housing; employment that provides a living wage; things that support employment, like worker protections, paid sick leave, and child care; and access to reliable transportation.

Economics is the study of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Economists address these three questions: (1) What goods and services should be produced to meet consumer needs? (2) How should they be produced, and who should produce them? (3) Who should receive goods and services?

Economic stability refers to a condition where the economy is free of fluctuations and the price level is stable. It can be achieved by correcting the situations of deficient and excess demand in the economy. Inflationary gap or excess demand is corrected by reducing government expenditure and increasing the revenue.

In 1980, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the first set of Healthy People 10-year objectives. Healthy People 2030 is the fifth iteration of the Healthy People initiative.

Which statement is true regarding Healthy People 2030? ›

To get started on determining the veracity of each statement, you'll need to have a basic understanding of what Healthy People 2030 is and its core objectives. The correct answer is: It aims to eliminate health disparities and improve health behaviors.

For Healthy People 2030, the biggest change is that we've reduced the number of objectives. With fewer objectives, we avoid overlap and prioritize the most pressing public health issues — and make it easier for you to find the objectives that are relevant to your work.

Healthy People 2030 includes 359 core — or measurable — objectives.

Social determinants of health (SDOH) are non-medical factors that influence health outcomes. They are the conditions in which people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life.

The Healthy People initiative is designed to guide national health promotion and disease prevention efforts to improve the health of the nation.

Healthy People 2030 includes 359 core — or measurable — objectives.

The Global Goals and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development seek to end poverty and hunger, realise the human rights of all, achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls, and ensure the lasting protection of the planet and its natural resources.