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
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goals of Healthy People 2020. From these goals, I want to look at ‘Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all’ (Healthy People, n.d.). I chose this goal because I believe that social and physical environments can play a vital role in helping people live healthy lifestyles. I believe that this is evident in day to day life, from having a ‘gym buddy’ to posting how far you ran on a social media network, we all want to have our peers support us in our healthy living.
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HEALTHY PEOPLE 2020 CULTURAL Using demographic data for your local community or region: 1) Which major ethnic and religious groups are represented in the community in which you live? 20 points According to the 2010 census, Wichita, Kansas a city with 400,000 people has grown by 11.1 percent in the last 10 years. Hispanic residents have overtaken non-Hispanic black residents as the largest minority group in the past 10 years, followed by African-Americans then non-Hispanic whites. Majority
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July 12, 2014 In 2010, Healthy People 2020 was started by the Department of Human Health Services. Health programs and research topics were instituted to help Americans live healthier and longer lives (CDC, 2014). The 42 topics presented are all very important in maintaining the goals set by Healthy People 2020. If these programs were to be cut or budget restraints imposed on them, the impact would be felt by all Americans. There would be more unhealthy people, preventable chronic diseases
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preventive care. Collaborating with other health care professionals and consumer groups in the community in redesigning health care can help meet the goals for Healthy People 2020. Refer to http://www.healthypeople.gov/ to open the Healthy People home page. 1. Select the "2020 Topics & Objectives" tab. 2. Select one of the 42 "Healthy People" topic areas for improving health. 3. Submit the proposed area to the instructor for approval. No group may work on the same focus area as another group.
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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
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Healthy People 2020: Handwashing After reviewing the Healthy People 2020 website, I decided to teach a group of four-year-old preschooler’s proper hand washing for my teaching plan. To meet this need several health-teaching projects have been developed to educate the preschoolers on how to better care for themselves. This teaching plan would fit into the category of disease prevention and health promotion. According to Bastable (2010), health promotion focuses on increasing wellness through approach
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Income and health are closely associated. Despite the economic growth America has experienced in the last few years and although life expectancy and health services have improved, the connection between income and health inequality has expand. Healthy People 2020 explains that income is one of the socio-economic
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Identify a Healthy People 2020 objective applicable to a population or aggregate to which you, your family member, or your assessment community belongs, such as adult Asian women, urban African-American adult men, or teenage athletes. Do you think the objective is attainable? Why or why not? What can you do as a community health nurse to assist the United States in reaching this goal? In searching for objectives for young adult women, I came across a variety of pertinent objectives for the population
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In recent decades, Healthy People 2020 has monitored the general health status of the United States (U.S.) population. The vision of Healthy People 2020 is “a society in which people live long, healthy lives (Unites States Department of Health and Human Services [HHS], Healthy People 2020 (2014).” Healthy People is a set of 10-year science-based objectives used to help improve the health of all Americans. The four goals of Healthy People 2020 are to: “Attain high-quality, longer lives free of preventable
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