Which publication established Healthy People?

• A. Surgeon General Report on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
• B. Healthy People 2030
• C. MAP-IT
• D. National Prevention Strategy

Answer: (A)

The original publication that started the Healthy People framework is the Surgeon General’s Report on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention published in 1979. This report explicitly connected health promotion and disease prevention to national priority-setting and introduced the idea of measurable national health objectives, effectively establishing the Healthy People initiative. From that launching point, the program has been updated every decade with new sets of objectives (for example, Healthy People 1990, 2000, 2010, 2020, and 2030), but the publication that established the initiative is the Surgeon General’s report.

The other options are related to Healthy People in different ways: Healthy People 2030 is one of the later updates setting current targets; MAP-IT is a practical framework to implement the plan locally; the National Prevention Strategy is a separate national effort to coordinate prevention across multiple sectors.