The 2030 Healthy People Initiative and Framework: Health Literacy’s Impact on Oral Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives for the Nation

Oral health is an integral part of the Healthy People initiative, a 40-year national health promotion and disease prevention effort that sets and monitors objectives with data-driven targets for each decade. The framework for the next decade, Healthy People 2030, includes new components and a focus on health literacy for the first time. This paper discusses oral health in the context of this framework and implications for supporting progress toward the new objectives.