...Axia College Material Appendix A Healthy People 2020 Scavenger Hunt Complete the Healthy People 2020 Scavenger Hunt by accessing the Healthy People website located at www.healthypeople.gov. 1. What is the mission of Healthy People 2020? • Identify nationwide health improvement priorities. • Increase public awareness and understanding of the determinants of health, disease, and disability and the opportunities for progress. • Provide measurable objectives and goals that are applicable at the national, State, and local levels. • Engage multiple sectors to take actions to strengthen policies and improve practices that are driven by the best available evidence and knowledge. • Identify critical research, evaluation, and data collection needs. 2. List five new topic areas for Healthy People 2020? • Diabetes • Immunization and infectious diseases • Physical Activity • Food Safety • Nutrition and weight 3. Select one topic area from Healthy People 2020. Diabetes What is the goal of the topic? To have the ability to control the diabetes without daily meds. What is one objective of the topic? Number of cases, deaths, causes and what can be done to control diabetes. Why is this topic and objective important? This informs all American and non-Americans of the effects that diabetes can cause in your life along with the preventive steps to take in-order to control this problem...
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...The Healthy People 2020 was launched by the Department of Health and Human Services in 2010 encompassing 1,200 objectives under 42 topics (CDC, 2011). Healthy People 2020 had four over-reaching goals to: to eliminate preventable disease and premature death, to achieve true health equity and eliminate disparities to promote healthy development across the life stages, and create social and physical environments that promote good health for all (2011). It also aims to attain high-quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death (2011). The best way to do so is through a broad social determinant approach that reconciles health in all aspects so that the healthy choice is an easy choice (Healthy People...
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...Health People 2020 Objectives Health People 2020 Objectives In today’s society it has never been more pressing for society to take serious its health and health practices and make changes to better themselves. Using Health People 2020 as a foundation this paper will serve to identify objectives and identify how biological risk (including age-related risk), environmental risk (including economic risk), and behavioral risk contribute to family health risks for those objectives noted by Health People 2020. The two objectives that will be discussed include smoking, to include health related problems that result in this behavior, and respiratory illnesses, including Asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Within the paper, prevention of exacerbation will also be noted as it relates to each illness. Tobacco Use Scientific knowledge about the health effects of tobacco use has increased greatly since the first Surgeon General’s report on tobacco was released in 1964. The most successful interventions of many clinical trials incorporated elements of social or organizational change to modify individual behavioral risk factors, such as alcohol and tobacco consumption, diet, and physical activity. Most behaviors are not randomly distributed in the population, but rather are socially patterned and often cluster with one another. Thus, many people who drink also smoke cigarettes, and those who follow health-promoting...
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...Steven Palestino Critical Thinking Assignment 1 Healthy People 2020 Healthy People was established in 1979 by the Department of Health and Human Services with a mission to improve health and well-being across the entire nation (Nutrition, Health and Safety for Young Children: Promoting Wellness.). Healthy People tracks information about disease, health equity, disparities, overall wellness, and hundreds of other important categories (Center for Disease Control and Prevention). The Healthy People initiative tracks and records data every ten years and shows if improvements are made in several different categories. Healthy People 2020 is the most recent program. The Healthy People 2020 initiative consists of 600 objectives which are further broken down into 42 topic areas, and 28 health indicator focus areas (Nutrition, Health and…). The initiative focuses on national statistics, with state and residential statistics added over the period of time. One of the most important objectives that deals with this class is the section about Early and Middle Childhood. The goal of the Early and Middle Childhood objective is to “document and track population based measures of health and well-being for early and middle childhood populations over time in the United States” (Healthy People). Early childhood is defined from birth to the age of eight years old and is important because it is a time extreme physical, emotional, and cognitive development. Middle childhood...
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...obesity as the weight of the body which is excessive to healthy people and is the greatest public health challenge currently in the United States. The World Health Organization has stated that 2.8 million adults will die due to obesity in the world (World Health Organization, 2012). This paper will discuss the resourcefulness of Healthy People 2020 to fight obesity, discuss federal, state, and local agencies assigned with managing this problem, will discuss simulations to determine and analyze obesity, define the community, and describe the epidemiologic surveillance systems and tool for monitoring obesity. Obesity in America In the United States obesity amounts have accelerated to levels greater than before. In the United States one-third of all adults are categorized as overweight (Center of Disease Control and Prevention, 2012). The initiatives started in 2000 and were restructured in 2010 and 2020. Healthy People 2000 was established in 1990 by the Department of Human and Health Services as an approach to develop healthy Americans (Center of Disease Control and Prevention, 2009). The priority areas recognized were physical fitness and nutrition. Objectives for Healthy People was republished in 2010 with new high priority objectives added. The goals of this reconstruction was comparable to the one in 2000 but actually concentrating on decreasing health inconsistencies and to raise the value and years of a healthy lifestyle (Center of Disease Control and Prevention, 2011)...
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...twenty years ago, is becoming the subject of today’s healthy lifestyle. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2013), 69.2% of adults over the age of 20 are overweight including obesity from 2009 to 2010. Eighteen percent of children ages six to 19 years are obese as well and has become a major health concern (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2013). Chronic diseases are also an issue with one in two adults having at least one chronic health condition (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2013). To reduce the obesity rates and chronic diseases for the future generation, promoting a healthy lifestyle from childhood years is highly recommended. This report reviews the importance of breastfeeding, Minnesota’s health themes for 2020, the different agencies and surveillance systems involved in addressing these issues, and the type of data used. Health Issue: Breastfeeding Healthy Minnesota 2020 The health assessment for Minnesota recognizes a healthy start early in life. The themes for Healthy Minnesota 2020 to promote health are: * “Capitalize on the opportunity to influence health in early childhood” (MDH, 2012, p.11) * “Assure that the opportunity to be healthy is available everywhere and for everyone” (MDH, 2012, p. 11) * “Strengthen communities to create their own healthy futures” (MDH, 2012, p. 11) The focus of this report will be on indicator 1.2 which states “By 2020, more Minnesota children are exclusively breastfed...
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...has reached epidemic proportions. In the United States approximately 23.6 million people are affected by diabetes making diabetes the 7th leading cause of death (Healthy People 2020, 2012). Diabetes is a disease that results in the body either not producing or not using insulin properly. Complications from uncontrolled diabetes can result in devastating effects on almost every system in the body. Diabetes is so prevalent that the disease has become a national health objective in the Healthy People 2020 agenda. In 2010 North Carolina had approximately 700,000 adults with a diagnosis of diabetes (North Carolina Division of Public Health, 2011). The unfortunate reality is that approximately one-third of the people in North Carolina have not yet been diagnosed and the screening test, a simple blood test, has only been utilized by approximately 60% of North Carolinians (North Carolina Division of Public Health, 2011). Diabetes is a very costly disease and plays havoc on a person’s body. In this paper the subject of discussion is the public health issue of diabetes and its effect on the communities and population of North Carolina. Diabetes and Healthy People 2020 Healthy people 2020 continues the three decades old national program that is scientifically based and identifies national goals and objective that span over a 10 year period (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2013). Healthy People work to improve health, health promotion, and disease prevention for everyone in...
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...Healthy People 2020 Healthy People 2020 Introduction Launched in 2010, the Healthy People 2020 is an ambitious scientifically based agenda, outlining ten year health objectives to improve the health of all Americans. A key element of its mission is to provide an clear roadmap for achieving the Healthy People 2020 objectives. The February 2011 edition of Preventive Medicine comprises a series of articles examining the needs and goals of public health issues like obesity in the United States (Healthy People 2020). This paper discusses how Healthy People 2020 is dealing with obesity in United States, what the current epidemic situation of the disease is and how Health People 2020's initiatives could help in controlling this public health problem. Healthy people 2020 is a broad set of objectives for improving health care in the community over the next decade. While it is not a specific program, which will immediately respond to the challenges and unexpected increase in the number of people who are disabled, this is something that should be considered by anyone conscious of the health care system. Obesity as Risk Factor Not all obese people fall under at-risk groups for obesity. Obesity is generally risky if our weight is beyond a generally healthy limit. The WHO (World Health Organization) obesity defined as a BMI or body mass index (calculated by height and weight of the individual) is less than 30 kg / m² also considered a sign of obesity an increased waist circumference...
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...overall health status Equality in Access to health services is one of the forty two topic areas in Healthy People 2020 that caught my view as one of the objectives to have the highest importance in achieving a national goal of healthy Americans in the future. But what does access to health care actually means? According Gulliford et al (2002), facilitating access to health is concerned with helping people to command appropriate health care resources in order to preserve or improve their health status but unfortunately gaining access to healthcare depends on some factors such as financial, organizational and social or cultural barriers that permits or limit the said utilization of services. Therefore having much available health services is not a factor in itself to improve the quality of healthcare but the utilization of such services by all of the people which will depend on affordability and general accessibility of the service. According to Healthy People 2020 (US Department of Health and Human Services, 2012), it is important to have access to quality health care service in order to achieve equity in health and eventually improve the general health status of all Americans. This I think is one of the most important move that the state should make in order to make the vision of having healthy Americans, including all migrants, ethnic and minority groups, by the year 2020. Though free service is not always the key to have access to quality healthcare the state can definitely...
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...Abstract This paper focuses on Healthy People 2020 and their objective on increasing percentage of adults who report that they are in good physical health. Healthy People 2020 has an overall goal to increase quality of life for all Americans. They will do this by encouraging and teaching them about the preventive measures they can take to increase their quality of life. There are many ways that a nurse will develop a care plan and it is important that they are knowledgeable on how to communicate a patient at the right time. A patient must be willing to make the change before a nurse begins the process of educating a patient...
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...The topic i'm choosing is the Healthy People 2020 goal for the pediatric nurses. I chose this topic since I am a pediatric nurse, I feel that I am in a great position to help parents and their kids prevent illnesses and be prepared for expected changes. The Healthy People 2020 have set goals for adolescents which are defined by the ages 10-19 years of age (Meadows-Oliver and Allen, 2012) and for early and middle childhood. The Healthy People goals are made to improve priorities and increase public awareness of determinants of health, disease, and disability; providing measurable goals and objectives to determine progress in attaining the health improvement priorities; engaging multiple sectors to improve practices based on evidence and knowledge; and identifying critical research, evaluation, and data collection (Meadows-Oliver and Allen, 2012). 11 objectives are set for adolescents this year. The objective that grabbed my interest was increasing the percentage of adolescents who have had wellness checks from 68.7% to 75.6% (Meadows-Oliver and Allen, 2012). That objective grabbed my interest because I feel like I can personally help meet that goal by educating my adolescent patients and their parents to receive a yearly check up with their doctor. The goals made for early and middle childhood is to increase the proportion of children who are ready for school in all five domains of healthy development: physical development, social-emotional development, approaches to learning...
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...Week 1 Assignment SCI/163 March 31, 2010 Healthy People 2020 Scavenger Hunt 1. What is the mission of Healthy People 2020? The mission is to educate people about diseases, health issues and how to be healthier. 2. List five new topic areas for Healthy People 2020? Global Health Blood Disorders and Blood Safety Sleep Health Adolescent Health Early and Middle Childhood 3. Select one topic area from Healthy People 2020. What is the goal of the topic? What is one objective of the topic? Why is this topic and objective important? The topic I chose will be about sleep health. The goal is to help people understand the concept of sleep disorders and how to improve your sleep habits. The objectives are to encourage people to seek help if you have a sleep disorder, by encouraging people this may reduce car crashes as well. People need to be aware how important it is to get enough sleep to fully function. 4. What part of the website did you find most useful? The part that is the most useful and resourceful to me is the overview tab. You will find a brief description of the topic, as well as resources and hint to prevent the health issue discussed. 5. What resources located on this website would you consider using in the future? Resources I will use will be using will be the explanation of diseases and what you can do to improve. The resources will be under the overview, objective, interventions and resources tab. 6. Which...
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...of Healthy People 2020 as it applies to mental illness. Third, this paper will review my work place assessment for barriers for the care and treatment of mentally ill patients. Finally, this paper will review a short presentation I gave to co-workers in an effort to aid in better treatment for the mentally ill. Recent figures suggest that in 2004, approximately 1 in 4 adults in the United States had had a mental health disorder in the past year, most commonly anxiety or depression ("Healthy People 2020 ", n.d.).. It is estimated that only about 17% of U.S. adults are considered to be in a state of optimal mental health ("Healthy People 2020 ", n.d.). An estimated 26% of Americans age 18 and older are living with a mental health disorder in any given year, and 46% will have a mental health disorder over the course of their lifetime ("Healthy People 2020 ", n.d.). Mental health disorders often have a serious impact on physical health and are associated with the prevalence, progression, and outcome of some of today’s most pressing chronic diseases including diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. Mental health disorders can have harmful and long-lasting effects—including high psychosocial and economic costs. These effects apply not only for the people living with the disorder, but also for their families, schools, workplaces, and communities. For these reasons this population has been labeled by many as a vulnerable population for healthcare. So much so that Healthy People 2020 has...
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...it related to personal health behaviors (U.S. Preventative Services Task Force, 2011). This paper will examine the Healthy People 2020 objective HDS-3, Reducing Stroke Deaths (U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2011), and how the promotion of this objective has progressed since it’s Healthy People 2010, 12-7, predecessor. History The Healthy People initiative was introduced in 1979, by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), in an effort to provide a systematic approach to improving health (Koh, 2010). The plans, known as HP 1990-Promoting Health/Preventing Disease (Centers for Disease Control, 2011), Healthy People 2000, Healthy People 2010 and the current Healthy People 2020 have focused on identifying health priorities and aligning the strategies to effectively implement those strategies. The goals related to each version of the initiative have changed, as have the number of objectives/measures. HP 1990 goals were to decrease mortality in infants and adults and to increase the independence among older adults while the Healthy People 2020 goals were aimed at: - attaining high quality, longer lives - achieving health equity, eliminating disparities - creating social and physical environments that promote good health - promoting quality of life, healthy development, healthy behaviors (Centers for Disease Control, 2011) Literature Review One can see that the earlier goals were focused...
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...In 2006 only 24 States had nutrition standards for food and beverages for children in pre-school. The goal by 2020 is to have 34 states with nutrition standards for foods and beverages. I believe it is important for states to have standards for nutrition and beverage when it comes to children eating in school settings. With America’s soaring rates of obesity, I think it’s important to teach children good eating habits at a young age. Healthy people 2020 talks about pre-schools maintaining consistent programs that follow the laws and regulations. The desired direction is to increase these standards from 24 states to 34 states. I believe that some states are lacking the development and planning of nutrition programs. Before reading into this topic on healthy people and seeing the statistic of only 26 states having a nutritional standard for pre-schools surprised me, I would of thought that all states would have some regulations and policies. I know some children are already obese before they enter pre-school and that is a challenge not only for the parents but also the teacher who is trying to promote healthy eating habits. I know when I was pre-school and grade school are snacks throughout the day weren’t as healthy as what my son’s snacks are today in pre-school. A lot of our snacks were sweet food and high in cholesterol. My son that’s in pre-school has lots of fruits and vegetables. In his case he’s a picky eater and won’t usually eat most of the fruits at home, but since he’s...
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