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What Is Healthy People 2010?

Healthy People 2010 is a comprehensive set of health objectives developed by the 2010 Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for the nation to achieve over the first decade of the new century. Created by scientists both inside and outside of government, it identifies a wide range of public health priorities and specific, measurable objectives. Healthy People 2010 contains 467 objectives designed to serve as a road map for improving the health of all people in the United States during the first decade of the 21st century.

 
         
  Healthy People 2010 builds on similar initiatives pursued over the past two decades. Two overarching goals—increase quality and years of healthy life, and eliminate health disparities—served as a guide for developing objectives that will actually measure progress. The objectives are organized in 28 focus areas, each representing an important public health area. Each objective has a target for improvements to be achieved by the year 2010. A limited set of the objectives, known as the Leading Health Indicators are intended to help everyone more easily understand the importance of health promotion and disease prevention and to encourage wide participation in improving health in the next decade. These Indicators were chosen based on their ability to motivate action, the availability of data to measure their progress, and their relevance as broad public health issues.

The major focus areas of Healthy People 2010 are summarized below. If you would like to see the complete two volume document, click on www.health.gov/healthypeople/.

 
     
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The Overarching Goals are:

  1. To increase quality and years of healthy life
  2. To eliminate health disparities
 
         
  Focus Areas  
         
 
  1. Access to Quality Health Services
  2. Arthritis, Osteoporosis & Chronic Back Conditions
  3. Cancer
  4. Chronic Kidney Disease
  5. Diabetes
  6. Disability and Secondary Conditions
  7. Educational and Community-Based Programs
  8. Environmental Health
  9. Family Planning
  10. Food Safety
  11. Health Communication
  12. Heart Disease and Stroke
  13. HIV
  14. Immunization and Infectious Diseases
  15. Injury and Violence Prevention
  16. Maternal, Infant, and Child Health
  17. Medical Product Safety
  18. Mental Health & Mental Disorders
  19. Nutrition and Overweight
  20. Occupational Safety and Health
  21. Oral Health
  22. Physical Activity and Fitness
  23. Public Health Infrastructure
  24. Respiratory Diseases
  25. Sexually Transmitted Diseases
  26. Substance Abuse
  27. Tobacco Use
  28. Vision and Hearing
 
         
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  What Are the Leading Health Indicators (LHIs)?

The Leading Health Indicators are markers of a health problem, which will be used to measure the health of the nation. There are ten major health issues for the nation that reference particular goals and focus areas above.

The LHIs are:

  • Physical Activity (Objectives: 22-2 &22-7)
  • Overweight and Obesity (Objectives: 19-2 &19-3c)
  • Tobacco Use (Objectives: 27-1a & 27-2b)
  • Substance Abuse (Objectives: 26-10a, 26-10c & 26-11c)
  • Responsible Sexual Behavior (Objectives: 13-6 & 25-11)
  • Mental Health (Objective: 18-9b)
  • Injury and Violence (Objectives: 15-15a & 15-32)
  • Environmental Quality (Objectives: 8-1a & 27-10)
  • Immunization (Objectives: 14-24, 14-29a & 14-29b)
  • Access to Health Care (Objectives: 1-1, 1-4a & 16-6a)
 
         
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