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The goals were subsequently updated for Healthy People 2000, Healthy People 2010, Healthy People 2020 and Healthy People 2030. [ 2 ] Science based goals and objectives are reviewed, used and updated by the federal government, states, communities as well as other private institutions to combat and prevent health issues.
[3] [4] [5] Let's Move! sought to decrease childhood obesity to 5% by 2030. [6] Despite its goal, the Let's Move! initiative did not cause a decline in obesity rates. In 2008, 68% of Americans were either overweight or obese. By 2016, that number jumped to 71.2%. In 2018, more than 73.1% of Americans were either overweight or obese. [7]
Additionally, within the United States, Healthy People 2030 [9] is an objective-driven framework which can guide public health practitioners and healthcare providers on how to address social determinants of health at the community level. [10]
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), rates of obesity have more than doubled from 1990 to 2022, jumping from an estimated 7% of adults living with obesity to 16%. Over one billion ...
Now, a new study finds that people at a higher genetic risk of obesity may need to exercise more than those at a lower risk to avoid developing the condition. The study, which was published in ...
Some research shows that people with obesity are less likely to be hired for a job and are less likely to be promoted. [237] People with obesity are also paid less than their counterparts who do not live with obesity for an equivalent job; women with obesity on average make 6% less and men with obesity make 3% less. [242]: 30
Excess weight and obesity in children and adolescents continue to be a global health issue. In fact, new research published by JAMA Pediatrics finds that, worldwide, 1 in 5 people under the age of ...
Another predecessor of the definition was the 1979 Healthy People report of the Surgeon General of the United States, [10] which noted that health promotion "seeks the development of community and individual measures which can help... [people] to develop lifestyles that can maintain and enhance the state of well-being". [12]