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Healthy People: Public health in the United States since 1979


Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Tyra Hudgens, Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA
Background: Healthy People 2020 is a national initiative that sets health goals for all Americans and a time by which to achieve them.  Healthy People 2020, however, is the newest version of an initiative that started with the first Healthy People document in 1979.  Five years away from the deadline of Healthy People 2020 this study examines the progress from the first

Methods: This study critically analyzes the Healthy People documents—what is missing, added, has been changed--to determine how each follows from the one before and insights into the accomplishments of public health in the United States.

Results: Healthy People 2020 recreates and expands on issues with previous documents, including clarity, broadness, and goal proliferation.  Current problems in achieving stated by the deadline might be linked to structure of the documents and larger goal-setting.

Conclusions: Over 35 years of setting goal setting requires assessment of the usefulness of this documentation to the mission of national public health.

Learning Areas:

Public health or related laws, regulations, standards, or guidelines
Social and behavioral sciences

Learning Objectives:
Describe the creation of the Healthy People documents. Identify differences and similarities between documents. Evaluate the progress of public health through examinations of document progress. Assess current status of American public health goal achievement.

Keyword(s): Public Health Policy, Healthy People 2020

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am a current MPH student at the University of Pittsburgh graduate school of public health. Among my research interests has been the status and identity of public health in the United States.
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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