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APHA Scientific Session and Event Listing

Carter Blakey, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, US Department of Health and Human Services, 1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite LL100, Rockville, MD 20852, 2404538254, cblakey@osophs.dhhs.gov

Healthy People 2010 represents a substantial intellectual and resource investment by HHS, other federal agencies, state officials, external agencies and organizations that participated in the development of Healthy People objectives, such as the Healthy People Consortium, the public health community at large, and the general public. During the public comment period, HHS received more than 11,000 comments from people in every state. The overarching goals of Healthy People 2010 (to increase the quality and years of healthy life and to eliminate health disparities) drive the premise that Healthy People 2010 is a population-based approach to disease prevention and health promotion where the health of the individual and the health of the community are linked.

The purpose of this session to discuss the process for developing a framwork for the disease prevetnion and health promotion objectives for the next decade.The current challenge is to determine an appropriate approach (including a framework and process) to developing the next decade's set of national disease prevention and health promotion objectives that will ensure the objectives are scientifically valid, relevant, effective, reasonably limited in number, sustainable, and foster the cooperation and commitment of every segment of the public and private sectors.

Learning Objectives:

• 1. Articulate the current framework for the Nation’s disease prevention and health promotion objectives
• 2. Discuss the proposed process and options for developing the Nation’s next set of disease prevention and health promotion objectives

Keywords: Healthy People 2000/2010, Disease Prevention

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Any relevant financial relationships? No