Between October 18–21, this website will move to a new web address (from health.gov to odphp.health.gov). During that time, some functions might not work as expected. We appreciate your patience and understanding as we’re working to make this transition as smooth as possible.

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

Active People, Healthy Nation

About this resource:

Non-Systematic Review

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Last Reviewed: 2022

Workgroups: Physical Activity Workgroup

Getting more physical activity can improve health, quality of life, and lower health care costs for individuals and communities across the United States. “Active People, Healthy Nation” is a national initiative led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to help 27 million Americans become more physically active by 2027. This website provides strategies that work to increase physical activity and ways to incorporate equity and inclusion into each.

Read more about this resource

Objectives related to this resource (9)

Reduce the proportion of adults who do no physical activity in their free time — PA‑01
Little or no detectable change
Increase the proportion of adults who do enough aerobic physical activity for substantial health benefits — PA‑02
Little or no detectable change
Increase the proportion of adults who do enough aerobic physical activity for extensive health benefits — PA‑03
Little or no detectable change
Increase the proportion of adults who do enough muscle-strengthening activity — PA‑04
Little or no detectable change
Increase the proportion of adults who do enough aerobic and muscle-strengthening activity — PA‑05
LHI label
Little or no detectable change
Increase the proportion of adults who walk or bike to get places — PA‑10
Little or no detectable change
Increase the proportion of adolescents who do enough muscle-strengthening activity — PA‑07
Getting worse
Increase the proportion of adolescents who do enough aerobic physical activity — PA‑06
Getting worse
Increase the proportion of adolescents who do enough aerobic and muscle-strengthening activity — PA‑08
Getting worse

Suggested Citation

1.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2022). Active People, Healthy Nation. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/physicalactivity/activepeoplehealthynation/index.html.