Healthy People 2020 Global Health Initiatives
Week 3 discussion Discussion Question Respond to one of the following questions: Review Healthy People 2020 Global Health Initiatives. Choose one disease process and discuss the disease process, the goal of Healthy People 2020, and how the CDC plays a role in meeting the goal. Search the South University Online Library for caregiver role strain. What is the most important factor that causes caregiver role strain? What can be done to prevent it?Healthy People 2020 Global Health Initiatives
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Healthy People provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans. For 3 decades, Healthy People has established benchmarks and monitored progress over time in order to:
- Encourage collaborations across communities and sectors.
- Empower individuals toward making informed health decisions.
- Measure the impact of prevention activities.
Introducing Healthy People 2020
Healthy People 2020 continues in this tradition with the launch on December 2, 2010 of its ambitious, yet achievable, 10-year agenda for improving the Nation’s health. Healthy People 2020 is the result of a multiyear process that reflects input from a diverse group of individuals and organizations. Read the press release for the Healthy People 2020 launch. [PDF – 149 KB]
Vision
A society in which all people live long, healthy lives.
Mission
Healthy People 2020 strives to:
- Identify nationwide health improvement priorities.
- Increase public awareness and understanding of the determinants of health, disease, and disability and the opportunities for progress.
- Provide measurable objectives and goals that are applicable at the national, State, and local levels.
- Engage multiple sectors to take actions to strengthen policies and improve practices that are driven by the best available evidence and knowledge.
- Identify critical research, evaluation, and data collection needs.
Overarching Goals
- Attain high-quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death.
- Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups.Healthy People 2020 Global Health Initiatives
- Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all.
- Promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors across all life stages.
Federal health officials have released a much-anticipated 10-year agenda to help all Americans lead longer, healthier lives.
Hailed by health leaders as an occasion to celebrate, the launch of Healthy People 2020 in December equips health professionals and the public with long-awaited new targets, new topic areas and an expanded Web-based platform that can be used to craft health promotion and disease prevention programs across the nation.
Grounded in the principle that setting national objectives and monitoring progress can motivate action, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services-led initiative is the “public health roadmap and compass for the nation,” said Assistant Secretary for Health Howard Koh, MD, MPH, of HHS.
“Today we stand as one community and one nation to celebrate the unity of purpose that is represented by Healthy People 2020,” Koh said at a Washington, D.C., news conference releasing the new health goals and objectives Dec. 2. “Each decade since 1980, we have mobilized the best public health talent possible to set overarching goals, identify topic areas and targets and promote the power of prevention.”Healthy People 2020 Global Health Initiatives
Now in its fourth edition, Healthy People is released every 10 years and undergoes updates each time. Building on the ever-expanding scope of public health, Healthy People 2020 includes nearly 600 health objectives — up from 467 in Healthy People 2010 — and more than 1,300 measures to improve the health of all Americans. The resource also addresses 42 topics, including 13 new ones: adolescent health, blood disorders and safety, dementia’s, early and middle childhood, genomics, older adults, global health, quality of life, health care-associated infections, preparedness, sleep health, social determinants of health, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender health.
Emphasizing that the health of an individual is almost inseparable from the health of the larger community, the initiative sets overarching goals to attain longer, healthier lives; achieve equity; create healthy social and physical environments; and promote healthy behaviors, among others.
Of the goals, addressing social and physical environments will be especially important for advancing the health of the population over the next decade and beyond, said APHA member Shiriki Kumanyika, PhD, MPH, associate dean for health promotion and disease prevention at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
“We believe that this is one of the most important developments of the Healthy People 2020 program,” said Kumanyika, who co-chaired a committee convened by HHS in 2008 to guide the development of the Healthy People 2020 objectives.
The committee’s recommendations included feedback gathered from hundreds of state and local public health professionals who provided input to the Healthy People development process via online and regional meetings.Healthy People 2020 Global Health Initiatives
In addition to new topic areas and objectives, Healthy People 2020’s newly redesigned, user-friendly website encourages public health professionals, academics and advocates to tailor the information to their own Healthy People programs and processes in their communities. Online at www.healthypeople.gov, the website will likely “make the biggest difference in your everyday use of Healthy People 2020,” said Penelope Slade-Sawyer, MSW, deputy assistant secretary for health, disease prevention and health promotion at HHS.
Interactive and searchable, the website replaces the traditional print version of Healthy People and will be continually refined and improved as public health professionals across the country add to the knowledge base, said Slade-Sawyer, who was also on hand at APHA’s Annual Meeting in Denver in November to give meeting-goers an early look at Healthy People 2020’s new website and topic areas.Healthy People 2020 Global Health Initiatives