The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services created which program to promote high-quality, longer lives and health equity?

• A. Healthy People
• B. Global Health Initiative
• C. Medicare and Medicaid Services
• D. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Answer: (A)

Healthy People is the nationwide program designed to improve the nation’s health by setting science-based objectives that aim to increase quality and length of life and to reduce health disparities. It’s an initiative created by the Department of Health and Human Services and updated every decade (like Healthy People 2020 and Healthy People 2030), providing measurable goals and data to guide public health actions, policies, and resource allocation toward health equity. The other options don’t fit this role: the Global Health Initiative focuses on international health efforts, Medicare and Medicaid Services is an agency that administers health coverage, and the department itself is the organization, not a program.