TABLE 2. About the Healthy People 2030 Objectives20.

Core objectives Most Healthy People 2030 objectives are core, or measurable, objectives that are associated with targets for the decade. Core objectives reflect high-priority public health issues and are associated with evidence-based interventions. Core objectives have valid, reliable, and nationally representative data, including baseline data from no earlier than 2015. If applicable, they have a measure of variability. Data will be provided for core objectives for at least 3 time periods throughout the decade.

Developmental objectives Developmental objectives represent high-priority public health issues that are associated with evidence-based interventions but do not yet have reliable baseline data. To become a core objective, a developmental objective needs reliable data.

Research objectives Research objectives represent public health issues with a high health or economic burden or significant disparities between population groups—but they are not yet associated with evidence-based interventions. Research objectives may also be added throughout the decade to address emerging issues. To become a core objective, a research objective needs reliable baseline data and associated evidence-based interventions. If a research objective evolves to meet these criteria, a Healthy People work group may propose to the Healthy People Federal Interagency Workgroup that it become a core objective.