Healthy People 2010 Report
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Healthy People 2010
History
Healthy People 2010, started in January 2000 by the United States Department of
Health and Human Services, is a nationwide health promotion and disease prevention
plan to be achieved by the year 2010. It was builds on initiatives pursued over the past
two decades. The 1979 Surgeon General's Report, Healthy People laid the foundation for
a national prevention agenda. The 1980, Promoting Health/Preventing Disease:
Objectives for the Nation, and Healthy People 2000: National Health Promotion and
Disease Prevention Objectives, both established national health objectives and served as
the basis for the development of State and community plans. Healthy People 2010 was
developed through a broad consultation process, built on the best scientific knowledgeand designed to measure programs over time. Healthy people 2010also defined as a
disease prevention and health promotion initiative led by the US Department of Health
and Human Services.
Goals
Healthy People 2010 are designed to achieve two overarching goals:
1. Increase Quality and Years of Healthy Life
Its design to help individuals of all ages increase life expectancy and improve
their quality of life.
2. Eliminate Health Disparities
The second goal of Healthy People 2010 is to eliminate health disparities among
different segments of the population.
Ten "Leading Health Indicators" reflect major health concerns:
physical activity
overweight and obesity
tobacco use
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substance abuse
responsible sexual behavior
mental health
injury and violence
environmental quality
immunization
access to health care
It also provides a comprehensive picture of the nations health, by identifying threats to
humans health, establishing goals, and measuring progress towards those goals.
The Impact Of Healthy People 2010
The national public health goals is to produced through the Healthy People 2010
process which have a significant impact on the efforts of local, state and national
governmental agencies as well as on the private sector . This will affect the
epidemiological efforts of public health agencies at all levels, including disease
surveillance, prevention and control activities. Its enables diverse groups to combine
their efforts and work as a team, to achieve the same goal of promoting healthy lifestyle.
It also can be used by many different people, States, communities, professionalorganizations, and groups to improve health. Healthy People 2010 will influence the
direction of health research efforts, including allocation of funds. Healthy People 2010
will have a significant impact on the practice of clinical medicine and on public health
efforts, during the next decade. Healthy People 2010 will have a significant impact on the
practice of emergency medicine.
The Advantages of Healthy People 2010
Healthy People 2010 will increase activities of promoting Healthy from all
sectors, such as the government and private sector which will work together to achieved
the goal of Healthy People 2010. This program also is an effort of Private Sector which
the like of HHS (Health & Human Services) and other Federal agencies serve as
coordinators for specific focus areas of Healthy People 2010. The program also develops
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in studies and research on how to increase years of healthy life and how to eliminate
healthy disparities. It also will increase in emergency medicine health care funding and
legislation.
The program also provides a comprehensive picture of the nations health, by
identifying threats to our health, establishing goals, and measuring progress towards
those goals. Healthy People 2010 gives the nation, healthcare organizations,
communities, and individuals a framework for actions to improve health. It also help
individual and consumers become more knowledgeable about health information,
services, and technologies and also getting the right information.
Disadvantages of Healthy People 2010
Even though Healthy People 2010 has been recognized as a future healthy plan,
from current research, its still lack in certain area which Healthy People 2010, does not
mention people living with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse
backgrounds and also there is a diversity in terms of where people live.(rural) Healthy
People 2010 also does not acknowledge the differing issues facing people and
communities in rural and remote communities both in terms of health issues and lack of
affordable and accessible transport, difficulties in recruiting and keeping health of staffand lack of affordable and accessible health services.
Some of Private sector made Healthy People 2010 as a business opportunity, make a
profit from it for example, many insurances comes, will come up with many health
future plan for their clients. Healthy People 2010 also lack of country involvement,
which it only focuses in certain developing country which mean the poor country like
example African country will left behind from the program.
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Healthy People 2010 to Malaysia
Even though Malaysia is one of the developing country, but Malaysian people
still lack of knowledge and awareness of future health plan. They did not take health as
the priority which mean they still perform the bad habit like smoking. Malaysian people
do a sedentary lifestyle without adjusting its for the sake of health. Even a campaign,
seminars, talk and other move have been made by the government and private sectors, it
still fail to adjust the Malaysian people styles. The Impact of Healthy People 2010 to
Malaysia only can be seen in certain level of community such in university and urban
area. At rural area, maybe it provide better environment but without exercise, right
information to supply, still fail to make the program successful. For educational practices,
the research has been work out in how to improve healthy life style. Research become asubject which students in university able to understand on how to improve healthy life
style based on their course.
Conclusion
The Health People 2010 program is design in order to offer better healthy people,
promote the right information, the right suggestions and also promote the quality of life
among the community in the world. Healthy people 2010 is ongoing process which it willnot be ended and will be continue as the world are facing challenge of many desease and
uncertain health status. Healthy People 2020 have been scheduled to be launched in
January 2010 which means it is ongoing effort to give better lifestyle to people and to the
universe. Individual, community cannot just look and wait on what the government and
private sector does but they also must take part, play a role to make this program
successful by adjusting lifestyle, make exercise as a habit and self-awareness to the health
status.
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