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Emmeline Ochiai, MPH, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, US Department of Health and Human Services, 1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite LL100, Rockville, MD 20852, 2404538259, eochiai@osophs.dhhs.gov
Founded on data that enable progress and trends to be tracked, Healthy People 2010 provides a set of 10-year evidence-based health objectives for improving the health of all Americans. Its two overarching goals are to increase the quality and years of healthy life, and to eliminate health disparities. Healthy People 2010 serves as a model for state and international disease prevention and health promotion plans, and covers 28 focus areas with 467 specific objectives.
Midway through the decade, a Midcourse Review assesses the status of the national objectives. The Midcourse Review is the process through which the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Federal agencies, and other experts assess the data trends during the first half of the decade, consider new science and available data, and make changes to ensure that Healthy People 2010 remains current, accurate, and relevant, while concurrently assessing emerging public health priorities.
The Midcourse Review changes to the Healthy People 2010 objectives take the form of: establishing baselines and targets for formerly developmental objectives; changing the language of objectives and subobjectives; deleting objectives and subobjectives; adding of new subobjectives; and revising baseline and targets.
Learning Objectives:
Keywords: Healthy People 2000/2010, Policy/Policy Development
Related Web page: www.healthypeople.gov
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Any relevant financial relationships? No
The 134th Annual Meeting & Exposition (November 4-8, 2006) of APHA