Goal: Promote healthy development for children and adolescents.
Childhood and adolescence are critical periods of growth and development. Healthy People 2030 focuses on promoting healthy physical, mental, emotional, and behavioral development in children and adolescents.
Parents and teachers can take steps at home and school to support healthy development for children and adolescents. These include providing stable and supportive care, reading to children, helping them do well in school, making sure they get enough sleep, and encouraging them to get physical activity.
In addition, health care providers can track children’s physical, mental, emotional, and behavioral development through screenings and other preventive care services. This is key to finding problems early so that children and adolescents can get the support they need as they develop.
Objective Status
0 Target met or exceeded
5 Improving
4 Little or no detectable change
9 Getting worse
2 Baseline only
8 Developmental
7 Research
Related Objectives
The following is a sample of objectives related to this topic. Some objectives may include population data.
Adolescents
Little or no detectable change
Developmental
Children
Little or no detectable change
Getting worse
Getting worse
Developmental
Developmental
Developmental
Developmental
Developmental
Economic Stability
Health Care
Infants
Little or no detectable change
Neighborhood and Built Environment
Physical Activity
Getting worse
Schools
Improving
Getting worse
Getting worse
Sensory or Communication Disorders
Little or no detectable change
