Question

In two pages, examine the history and development of the Healthy People initiatives. Discuss some of the successes and shortfalls of the three initiatives thus far; including Healthy People 2000, Healthy People 2010, and Healthy People 2020. Be sure to include statistical data from the initiatives to support your position.

Answer 1

For each of the past four decades, the Healthy People initiative has established a 10-year framework for tracking and reporting on the nation’s health goals and objectives. With each successive decade, the initiative has built on the previous decades’ work and been guided by evidence-based advances in prevention and public health. Originally set forth in the seminal 1979 “Healthy People: The Surgeon General’s Report on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention,”1 the initiative have served as a model and framework for catalyzing progress toward improving the nation’s health. Healthy People has evolved over time to reflect the most current science. The Healthy People 2020 (HP2020) framework mirrors the evolution of public health science with goals and objectives that go well beyond the goals originally set forth in the 1979 report.

Healthy People 2000:

Increased the span of a healthy life

Reduce health disparities

Achieve access to preventive services

Progress on over 60 % objectives, includes:
- reducing deaths from coronary heart diseases and cancer
- Reducing Aids
-Tobacco mortality
-Reducing Homicide
-Infant mortality and children with elevated blood levels
-Reduction of health disparities
2) 15% of objectives nations moved away from the report's target including obesity and overweight, especially in adolescents.

Healthy people 2010:

Increase the quality and years of healthy life

Eliminate health disparities

Base on Health indicators
-75% met goals in 8 focus areas ( included health communication, heart disease, stroke, immunization and infectious diseases, tobacco)

-Improve years of life, but measures of quality yielded mixed results
-Eliminating health disparities did not improve

Healthy People 2020:

Attain high quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death

Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities and increase independence among older adults improve the health of all groups

Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all

Promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviours across all life stages