The Healthy People Initiative 2020



Abstract

Healthy People Initiative 2020 is an advanced program collectively to cater the needs of people of United States. The aims and objectives of Healthy people 2020 is to set and carry out health promotion campaigns throughout the country and establish an agenda that helps in disease prevention. Since its inception and successfully implemented for the last three decades, the coming initiative 2020 is designed with more rigorous and health promotion plan. The healthy people 2020 plan combines all the country benefits on national, local and public levels and will take the promotional activity to a new direction. 10 year baseline plan covers the targets, approaches, monitor the outcomes and collect data for evaluation in order to improvise the activities nationwide.

Introduction1

Discussion2

Healthy people2

Healthy People 20203

The Mission and Vision of Healthy people 20204

History of Healthy People5

Healthy People and the Key Features5

History of Healthy People5

Progress of Healthy People6

Objectives of Healthy People 20207

Increasing Trends of cigarette smoking in Adults and Adolescents8

Smoking and Tobacco Use by New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene8

Enforcement of Illegal and Discounted Tobacco Products9

Tobacco 2111

NYC recommendations for advertising of tobacco products in retail stores11

Leading Health Indicators 202012

Implementation of healthy People 202017

New York's State Plan18

Prevention Agenda towards the Healthiest State - 2008-201218

Conclusion19

References21

The Healthy People Initiative 2020

Introduction

Healthy people is a ten-year comprehensive plan on public health designed to meet healthcare demands. First designed and implemented in 1980 for the purpose to achieve the health care objectives and goals in collaboration with different stakeholders and healthcare communities. United States department of health and human services (USDHHS) plan a broad based community service health care plan; it engages different local and public healthcare agencies. The services are carried out on the national level, covering different states and localities and making Healthy People a great success.

The proposal plan for 2020 was discussed in two phases. During phase 1, the committee discussed and worked on the improvement strategies keeping a focus on the past year working. By the end of 2008, working plan the committee had worked on the Healthy people 2020 implementation plan and ideas on which the future working will be based upon (Fielding, 2009, p. 255).

The healthy people 2010 have two focus activities:

1) To increase the quality of life of Americans, add on to the years of healthy life

2) Reduce the chances of disparities

The facts and figures revealed the statistics from 2000-2006 the life expectancy increased by 1.2% at the time of birth and by 5.1% at the age of 65 years and above. This was the result of implementing strategies to improve the quality of life in healthy people 2010. The focus areas in healthy people 2010 were 28 and 467 objectives were set to work upon. The overall result was achieving 19% of the targets, and the progress rate was 52%. The first 10 year plan was made public in 1990 by the name of Healthy people 2000, and successively the second plan for the next 10 years was Healthy people ...