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

Women

Goal: Promote health and well-being for women.

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Women experience many unique health issues — for example, pregnancy, childbirth, and menopause. And some health issues that affect both men and women pose unique challenges for women. Healthy People 2030 focuses on addressing these specific needs in order to improve women’s health and safety throughout their lives.

Both pregnancy and childbirth can lead to serious long-term health problems for women. Strategies to decrease unplanned pregnancies and make sure women get high-quality health care before, during, and after pregnancy can help reduce serious health problems and deaths.

Women are also at risk for diseases like breast and cervical cancer. Screening for these diseases and health issues that disproportionately affect women is key to identifying problems and making sure women get the treatment they need.

Objective Status

  • 3 Target met or exceeded
  • 4 Improving
  • 8 Little or no detectable change
  • 9 Getting worse
  • 5 Baseline only
  • 6 Developmental
  • 0 Research

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Related Objectives

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

Women — General

Reduce iron deficiency in females aged 12 to 49 years — NWS‑17
Baseline only

Cancer

Reduce the female breast cancer death rate — C‑04
Improving
Increase the proportion of females who get screened for breast cancer — C‑05
Improving
Increase the proportion of females who get screened for cervical cancer — C‑09
Little or no detectable change
Increase the proportion of females at increased risk who get genetic counseling for breast and/or ovarian cancer — C‑D01
Developmental

Family Planning

Reduce the proportion of pregnancies conceived within 18 months of a previous birth — FP‑02
Target met or exceeded
Reduce pregnancies in adolescents — FP‑03
Target met or exceeded
Increase the proportion of adolescent females who used effective birth control the last time they had sex — FP‑05
Little or no detectable change
Increase the proportion of women at risk for unintended pregnancy who use effective birth control — FP‑10
Little or no detectable change
Increase the proportion of adolescent females at risk for unintended pregnancy who use effective birth control — FP‑11
Little or no detectable change
Reduce the proportion of unintended pregnancies — FP‑01
Baseline only
Increase the proportion of women who get needed publicly funded birth control services and support — FP‑09
Baseline only

Foodborne Illness

Reduce infections caused by Listeria — FS‑03
Improving

Osteoporosis

Reduce the proportion of adults with osteoporosis — O‑01
Little or no detectable change
Reduce hip fractures among older adults — O‑02
Baseline only
Increase the proportion of older adults who get screened for osteoporosis — O‑D01
Developmental
Increase the proportion of older adults who get treated for osteoporosis after a fracture — O‑D02
Developmental

Pregnancy and Childbirth

Increase abstinence from cigarette smoking among pregnant women — MICH‑10
Target met or exceeded
Increase abstinence from alcohol among pregnant women — MICH‑09
Little or no detectable change
Increase abstinence from illicit drugs among pregnant women — MICH‑11
Little or no detectable change
Reduce maternal deaths — MICH‑04
LHI label
Getting worse
Reduce severe maternal complications identified during delivery hospitalizations — MICH‑05
Getting worse
Reduce cesarean births among low-risk women with no prior births — MICH‑06
Getting worse
Reduce preterm births — MICH‑07
Getting worse
Increase the proportion of pregnant women who receive early and adequate prenatal care — MICH‑08
Getting worse
Increase the proportion of women who had a healthy weight before pregnancy — MICH‑13
Getting worse
Increase the proportion of women of childbearing age who get enough folic acid — MICH‑12
Baseline only
Increase the proportion of women who get screened for postpartum depression — MICH‑D01
Developmental
Reduce the proportion of women who use illicit opioids during pregnancy — MICH‑D02
Developmental

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Reduce pelvic inflammatory disease in female adolescents and young women — STI‑07
Improving
Increase the proportion of sexually active female adolescents and young women who get screened for chlamydia — STI‑01
Little or no detectable change
Reduce the syphilis rate in females — STI‑03
Getting worse
Reduce congenital syphilis — STI‑04
Getting worse

Tobacco Use

Increase successful quit attempts in pregnant women who smoke — TU‑15
Getting worse

Vaccination

Increase the proportion of women who get the Tdap vaccine during pregnancy — IID‑D01
Developmental

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