Healthy People 2010

Rhonda Anderson

HADM 4132

September 7, 2006

HEALTHY PEOPLE 2010

Development of the Healthy People 2010 objectives began with the Healthy People Consortium—a user alliance of 350 national membership organizations and 250 State health, mental health, substance abuse, and environmental agencies. The Healthy People 2010 framework builds on initiatives pursued over the past two decades. A 1979 Surgeon General’s Report, Healthy People, provided targets to reduce premature mortality in four age groups in the 1980s and was supported by objectives with 1990 endpoints. Healthy People 2000: National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives was released in 1990; it is a comprehensive agenda organized into 22 priority areas, with 319 supporting objectives. Its three overarching goals are to increase years of healthy life, reduce disparities in health among different population groups, and achieve access to preventive health services. Like its predecessors, Healthy People 2010 is being developed through a broad consultation process, characterized by intersectoral collaboration and community participation. Healthy People 2010 is the United States’ contribution to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) "Health for All" strategy. Healthy People 2010 was launched in January 2000 by the department of health and human services in order to provide a detailed outline for planning, monitoring, and evaluating health improvement in the United States.

Planning such a health initiative begins with knowledge. Healthy people offered a simple but powerful idea: provide information and knowledge about how to improve health in a format that enables diverse groups to combine their efforts and work as a team to lead to increase quality and years of healthy life...