Goal: Promote health, safety, and learning in school settings.
Starting with early childhood education, school environments have a major impact on the health and development of children and adolescents. Healthy People 2030 focuses on supporting child and adolescent development in school settings—and on expanding health education in health professions programs.
People with higher levels of education are likely to be healthier and live longer. Interventions to increase high school graduation rates and ensure that students are proficient in math and reading can help boost overall achievement. To promote physical health and well-being for children and adolescents, schools can provide safe and supportive environments, healthy foods, health education, and physical education. They can also offer access to health care and mental health services and help students manage chronic conditions.
To promote mental health, schools can follow trauma-informed practices, provide counseling and mental health interventions, and take steps to prevent bullying.
In addition, health professions programs can expand their curricula to include population health.
Objective Status
1 Target met or exceeded
2 Improving
3 Little or no detectable change
6 Getting worse
1 Baseline only
17 Developmental
9 Research
Related Objectives
The following is a sample of objectives related to this topic. Some objectives may include population data.
Schools — General
Developmental
Developmental
Developmental
Developmental
Developmental
Research
Adolescents
Target met or exceeded
Developmental
Developmental
Research
Research
Cancer
Child and Adolescent Development
Little or no detectable change
Little or no detectable change
Getting worse
Children
Developmental
Developmental
Developmental
Developmental
Education Access and Quality
Getting worse
Emergency Preparedness
LGBT
Developmental
Neighborhood and Built Environment
Nutrition and Healthy Eating
Little or no detectable change
Developmental
Oral Conditions
Getting worse
