208144 Promoting Health Through Prevention: Utilizing a Health Determinants Approach to Frame Healthy People 2020

Monday, November 9, 2009: 9:00 AM

Osato Iyamu, MHS , US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Rockville, MD
Carter Blakey , US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Rockville, MD
Melinda Chen , US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Rockville, MD
Kyle Vanderpool , US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Rockville, MD
Janice V. Bowie, PhD, MPH , Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Health, Behavior, and Society, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Robert S. Lawrence, MD , Center for a Livable Future Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
  
Historically, Healthy People objectives have been organized into structured, disease-oriented priority and focus areas. This ordering method entertained the already segregated silos of disease, which in some ways restricted them to their own exclusive areas. Presently, there are efforts to develop the next set of national objectives to better reflect the growing acknowledgement of social and structural factors that impact health outcomes. Reaching beyond traditional health boundaries to take a more inclusive slant by framing the nation's health initiatives using the determinants of health is not only necessary, but inherently critical. This process will also lead to a deeper understanding in effectively addressing the nation's leading health problems. The session will explore the basis for the novel utilization of the determinants of health as an organizing structure for Healthy People 2020. The impact of the determinants of health on the Healthy People 2020 development, adoption and implementation processes will also be delineated.

Learning Objectives:
Describe current considerations in utilizing the determinants of health as an organizing structure for Healthy People 2020 Explain how the determinants of health impacts the development, adoption and implementation processes of Healthy People 2020

Keywords: Healthy People 2000/2010, Disease Prevention

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: Academically, my degree program at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has trained me in the established, core disciplines of public health. Graduate-level coursework in health education and health promotion, implementation and sustainability, program evaluation, communication strategies, and management has provided me with interdisciplinary competencies and the theoretical know how to develop effective interventions geared toward behavior change. Professionally, I currently work as the Community Strategies Fellow in the APTR-ODPHP Health Policy Fellowship Program at the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP), Office of Public Health and Science, Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). In my position, I participate in federal meetings and assist in planning for innovative, national goals and objectives for Healthy People 2020; gain first-hand knowledge of how policy is formulated; and I have performed comprehensive literature review and theoretical analysis of the Health Determinants by exploring the novel utilization of the determinants of health in framing 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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