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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Workforce

Goal: Strengthen the workforce by promoting health and well-being.

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The health and well-being of the U.S. workforce is central to the strength of the economy. Healthy People 2030 focuses on promoting the health, well-being, education, and training of the workforce — including the public health and health care workforce.

The delivery of high-quality services and products requires a strong workforce. Businesses and employers have an important role to play in strengthening the workforce by helping to improve health and well-being — for example, by offering employee health promotion programs.

Objective Status

  • 3 Target met or exceeded
  • 3 Improving
  • 3 Little or no detectable change
  • 1 Getting worse
  • 1 Baseline only
  • 6 Developmental
  • 7 Research

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Related Objectives

The following is a sample of objectives related to this topic. Some objectives may include population data.

Health Care

Increase the ability of primary care and behavioral health professionals to provide more high-quality care to patients who need it — AHS‑R01
Research

Public Health Infrastructure

Increase the proportion of local public health agencies that use core competencies in continuing education — PHI‑07
Target met or exceeded
Increase the proportion of state and territorial public health agencies that use core competencies in continuing education — PHI‑06
Little or no detectable change
Increase the proportion of tribal public health agencies that use core competencies in continuing education — PHI‑09
Baseline only
Increase the proportion of territorial public health agencies that use core competencies in continuing education — PHI‑D02
Developmental
Explore and expand practice-based continuing education for public health professionals — PHI‑R01
Research
Expand public health pipeline programs that include service or experiential learning — PHI‑R02
Research
Increase use of core and discipline-specific competencies to drive workforce development — PHI‑R03
Research
Monitor and understand the public health workforce — PHI‑R04
Research
Monitor the education of the public health workforce — PHI‑R05
Research

Sensory or Communication Disorders

Understand factors that impact use of protective eyewear in occupational and recreational settings — V‑R02
Research

Tobacco Use

Increase the number of states, territories, and DC that prohibit smoking in worksites, restaurants, and bars — TU‑17
Little or no detectable change

Transportation

Increase trips to work made by mass transit — EH‑02
Little or no detectable change

Workplace

Reduce work-related assaults — OSH‑05
Target met or exceeded
Reduce new cases of work-related hearing loss — OSH‑06
Target met or exceeded
Reduce work-related injuries resulting in missed work days — OSH‑02
Improving
Reduce work-related skin diseases — OSH‑03
Improving
Reduce pneumoconiosis deaths — OSH‑04
Improving
Reduce deaths from work-related injuries — OSH‑01
Getting worse
Increase the proportion of worksites that offer an employee health promotion program — ECBP‑D03
Developmental
Increase the proportion of worksites that offer an employee physical activity program — ECBP‑D04
Developmental
Increase the proportion of worksites that offer an employee nutrition program — ECBP‑D05
Developmental
Increase the proportion of worksites with policies that ban indoor smoking — ECBP‑D06
Developmental
Reduce the rate of high blood lead levels in adults exposed at work — OSH‑D01
Developmental

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