If you are interested in public health and want to learn more about how to effect positive change in the community, participate in Healthy People 2030 Development Thursday, June 22, 1:00 pm. After participating in the free webinar, participants will be able to understand how to use Healthy People 2020 to promote public health and understand the process of developing the Healthy People 2030 Framework.
The federal government's Healthy People
initiative develops and works toward successful completion of "science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans." This is not pie-in-the-sky. The 2020 topics are:
To make this a little more real and to understand the value and practicality, take a look at some indicators. Many, if not all, should be familiar:
The federal government's Healthy People
- Access to health services
- Clinical preventive services
- Environmental quality
- Injury and violence
- Maternal, infant, and child health
- Mental health
- Nutrition, physical activity, and obesity
- Oral health
- Reproductive and sexual health
- Social determinants
- Substance abuse
- Tobacco
To make this a little more real and to understand the value and practicality, take a look at some indicators. Many, if not all, should be familiar:
- Persons with medical insurance (Access to health services)
- Adults with hypertension whose blood pressure is under control (Clinical preventive services)
- Children exposed to secondhand smoke (Environmental quality)
- Injury deaths (injury and violence)
- Adolescents with a major depressive episode in the past 12 months (Mental health)
- Obesity among children and adolescents (Nutrition, physical activity, and obesity)
- Sexually active females receiving reproductive health services (Reproductive and sexual health)
- Binge drinking in past month—Adults (Substance abuse)
- Adolescent cigarette smoking in past 30 days (Tobacco)