173887 Healthy People 2020: Overview and Opportunity for Input from the Mental Health and Substance Use Care Communities

Wednesday, October 29, 2008: 1:00 PM

Ronald William Manderscheid, PhD , Global Health Sector, SRA International, Mental Health and Substance Use Programs, Rockville, MD
Penelope Royal , Us Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC
Carter Blakey , US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Rockville, MD
Currently, the US Department of Health and Human Services is designing Healthy People 2020. This decennial activity identifies national health goals and objectives that have wide reaching consequences for health and health care in local communities throughout the United States. This session will describe the current national thinking on the proposed vision, goals, and mission for Healthy People 2020. Further, participants will be afforded an opportunity to offer input for Healthy People 2020 on mental health and substance use conditions and their prevention, as well as on care and outcomes. The session is a very important opportunity for each of these fields to help design its own future.

Learning Objectives:
1. Understand the vision, goals, and mission of Healthy People 2020. 2. Understand how Healthy People 2020 relates to the mental health and substance use care communities. 3. Learn what others think about Healthy People 2020

Keywords: Healthy People 2000/2010, Policy/Policy Development

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am on the HHS Secretary's Advisory Group on Healthy People 2020.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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