Healthy People, the nation's prevention agenda, provides a comprehensive health strategy for improving the health of Americans at all stages of growth. The first Healthy People report, Healthy People: Surgeon General's Report on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, released in 1979, outlined health improvement goals that were to be achieved throughout the 1980s for Americans at the five major life stages: infants, children, adolescents and young adults, adults, and older adults. In 1990, the second report, Healthy People 2000: National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives, continued this focus on the major health-related threats facing each age group. Through numerous objectives, cutting across priority areas such as physical fitness and activity, mental health and mental disorders, and clinical preventive services, among others, the goal preventing unnecessary disease and disability, and achieving better quality of life, can be reached by all.
This presentation provides an overview of select life-stage objectives in Healthy People 2000, as well as the status-to-date (whether progress has been made in moving toward or meeting the intended target, or if there has been movement in the opposite direction) and key data issues surrounding the measures. Health areas highlighted include infant mortality; unintentional injuries (such as drowning and poisoning) among children; alcohol and other drug use, homicide and suicide among adolescents and young adults; nonfatal work injuries among adults; and disability among older adults, to name a few. A decade-end assessment of progress will be made when the latest data are available.
Learning Objectives: 1. Increase awareness of final assessment of progress towards the Year 2000 objectives related to life stages. 2. Identification of specific objectives for groups at increased risk for adverse health outcomes. 3. Increase understanding of the relationship between the Healthy People 2000 and 2010 objectives for specific population groups
Keywords: Healthy People 2000/2010, Statistics
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Organization/institution whose products or services will be discussed: None
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.