Information came from a survey of the health officers for all 50 State health agencies and the District of Columbia. Results revealed that as of December 1991, 47 States had developed or were in the process of developing State-specific health objectives. Twenty-one had put their objectives into final form. Forty-two states project that they will have completed development of the objectives by the end of 1992. Priority areas included maternal and infant health, immunizations and infectious diseases, HIV infection, the prevention of unintentional injuries, cancer, environmental health, and the reduction of tobacco-caused diseases. In developing objectives, approximately half the States have used or will use a method similar to that used by the Public Health Service to develop the national objectives. Figures, profiles of individual States' activities, and appended Health People 2000 objectives.