HHS launches Healthy People 2030 to address ‘critical health priorities, challenges’

HHS recently announced its Healthy People 2030 initiative to address what the agency called the “most critical public health priorities and challenges” in the United States over the next decade.
Updated decennially since 1980, the plan has targets for opioid use, e-cigarette use among youth and, for the first time, social determinants of health, according to a press release. Other targets that have been carried over from 2020 include increasing cervical cancer screening rates, reducing suicide attempts among teenagers and increasing the proportion of Americans who find their online

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