Jt Szwanki→ Researcher

Reanna Gentzler→ Advocacy

Hunter Grissinger→ Reporter

Lucy Orozco→ Explorer

Anita Zuberecz→ Explorer

What is Healthy People 2020?

• Healthy People 2020 is a set of goals and objectives with 10-year targets designed to guide national health promotion and disease prevention efforts to improve the health of all people in the United States.
• Healthy People 2020 is a mix of multiple agencies and organizations whose main goal is to target groups in the US that fall below the nations standards of healthy living.
• The main focus of the organization Healthy People 2020 is to reduce the number of health disparities in the U.S.

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Mission

Healthy People 2020 strives to:

• 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.

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Goals

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• Attain high-quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death.
• Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups.
• Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all.
• Promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors across all life stages.

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Healthy People 2020 Objectives

• Represent quantitative values to be achieved over the decade.
• Organized within the Topic Areas.
• Managed by lead Federal agencies.
• Supported by scientific evidence.
• Address population disparities.
• Data driven and prevention oriented

Why Healthy People 2020 is important

• A national agenda that communicates a vision for improving health and achieving health equity.
• A set of specific, measurable objectives with targets to be achieved over the decade.
• Having an organization that can do these things on a large scale can create a large change for the better.
• Health is an enormous part of everyday life and should considered for the benefit of all
• Creating a health conscious world is important and will benefit the majority.
• Healthy people covers all aspects of health and provides great resources to the public.
• The organization provides a lot of information that is easy to access as well as understand.
• The goals and missions of Healthy People are rooted in creating a better world filled with healthy people.

Who does this impact?

• Individuals that have or need access health insurance
• Patients in need of preventative health care services
• Victims of fatal injuries
• Children and infants
• Expecting mothers
• Mental health patients
• Children and adults who are obese
• Individuals over the age of two that get oral care done
• Sexualy acitve femals age 15-44
• Students who graduate with a regular diploma 4 years after starting ninth grade
• Individuals who suffer from substance abuse
• Tobacco users

Topic Areas for Healthy People 2020

Leading Health Indicators of 2020

The Healthy People 2020 LHIs were selected and organized using a health determinants and health outcomes by life stages conceptual framework.

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• Access to Health Services
• Clinical Preventive services
• Environmental Quality
• Injury and Violence
• Maternal, Infant, and Child Health
• Mental Health

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• Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity
• Oral Health
• Reproductive and Sexual Health
• Social Determinants
• Substance abuse
• Tobacco

The approach is intended to draw attention to “upstream” determinants that affect the public’s health and contribute to health disparities from infancy through old age, there by highlighting strategic opportunities to improve health and quality of life for all Americans.

Leading Health Indicators of 2020

• The LHIs, Health Determinants, and Health Disparities→ Recognizing that factors related to social and physical environments, multi-sector policies, individual behaviors, health services, and biology and genetics influence the ability of individuals and communities to make progress. Addressing determinants is key to improving health disparities and overall population health.
• The LHIs Across the Life Stages→ The LHIs will also be examined using a life stages perspective. This approach recognizes that specific disease outcomes, risk factors, and health determinants need to be addressed at various stages across the lifespan and highlights the importance of tailoring strategies to fit a particular age group.

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Statistics Corresponding to Healthy People 2020

• In 2008, 107 million Americans—almost 1 out of every 2 adults age 18 or older—had at least 1 of 6 reported chronic illnesses: Cardiovascular disease, Arthritis, Diabetes, Asthma, Cancer, Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
• In 2008, approximately 33%, or more than 100 million people, identified themselves as belonging to a racial or ethnic minority population.
• In 2008, 51%, or 154 million people, were women.
• In 2008, approximately 12%, or 36 million people not living in nursing homes or other residential care facilities, had a disability.
• In 2008, an estimated 70.5 million people lived in rural areas (23% of the population), while roughly 233.5 million people lived in urban areas (77%).
• In 2002, an estimated 4% of the U.S. population ages 18 to 44 identified themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender.
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Advocacy

Advocacy according to Merriam-Webster: the act or process of supporting a cause or proposal : the act or process of advocating

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Taking Action To Improve Everyone’s Health→ motivate action at the national, State, and local levels, as well as among individuals, families, and communities. The indicators can help us best focus our energies—at home and in our communities, worksites, businesses, or States—to live better and longer

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Ways to Advocate for Healthy People 2020

• Spread the word about the 2020 objectives.
• Join the Healthy People Consortium→ a diverse and dedicated group of organizations committed to achieving Healthy People 2020's health goals and objectives across the nation.
• Learn about Healthy People activities at the Federal, State, local, and tribal levels.
• Get guidance on how agencies or organizations can use Healthy People objectives to help their communities.
• Gain access to timely information and resources.
• Sign up at www.healthypeople.gov.

Consortium Member

As a Consortium Member, you can:

• Ensure that Healthy People meets the needs of your region, state, or community
• Share how your organization implements Healthy People 2020
• Champion the Healthy People 2020 goals and objectives
• Participate in Healthy People 2020 activities

Who can be a Consortium Member?

• Thoses who have a mission aligned with Healthy People, one of the 42 topic areas, or a specific objective
• Are an organization, agency, business, school or university, faith-based organization, or government entity

Ways to Connect with Healthy People 2020

• Follow Healthy People on Twitter (@gohealthypeople).
• Connect with Healthy People on LinkedIn.
• Join the Healthy People listserv.
• Visit www.healthypeople.gov for up-to-date information and announcements.
• E-mail: healthypeople@nhic.org.

How stakeholders use Health People 2020

• As a data tool to gauge the the performance of programs
• Framework for program planning and development
• Goal setting and agenda building
• Teaching public health courses
• Benchmarks to compare State and local data
• Way to develop non-traditional partnerships

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Stakeholders Input

• Secretary’s Advisory Committee on National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives for 2020
• Public Meetings
• Public Comment Website
• Healthy People Consortium
• an association, typically of several business companies
• Federal Interagency
• Workgroup (FIW)

Law and Health Policy

• They shape the environment and systems that influence health behaviors, access to health choices, and health outcomes.
• Project partners work with experts and federal stakeholders on a subject matter to develop a series of topic-specific reports and other evidence-based products such as infographics and success stories, or “Bright spots”.

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Program Planning

MAP-IT - Used to plan and evaluate public health interventions in a community.

• Mobilize individuals and organizations that care about the health of your community.
• Assess the areas of greatest need in your community, and the strengths and resources that you can tap into to the address those areas.
• Plan your approach: vision,strategies and actions
• Implement your plan using concrete action steps that will make a difference.
• Track your progress over time

Tools and resources offered.

Evidence based resources:

• There are 500+ studies, screenings and interventions that people can look to.

Contact syndicate:

• “free and easy way for you to add Healthy People tools, topic area information, objectives, and data to your website”

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Webinar & Events

Health people 2020 has led over 100 events and webinars to work towards their goals.

The range of different types go from LGBT, Tabasco use, access to health care, and many others.

Revisions

Every ten years there is a revision to refocus on what goals will be focused on for the following decade.

Healthy people 2020 is already working on goals for the future healthy people 2030.

Healthy people 2030 is looking at “establishing a framework for the initiative—the vision, mission, foundational principles, plan of action, and overarching goals—and identifying new objectives”

Healthy People 2030 Goals

• Attain healthy, thriving lives and well-being, free of preventable disease, disability, injury and premature death.
• Eliminate health disparities, achieve health equity, and attain health literacy to improve the health and well-being of all.
• Create social, physical, and economic environments that promote attaining full potential for health and well-being for all.
• Promote healthy development, healthy behaviors and well-being across all life stages.
• Engage leadership to take action and design policies that improve the health and well-being of all.

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References

https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/about/foundation-health-measures/disparities

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Objectives for Improving Health Healthy People 2020https://www.healthypeople.gov/sites/default/.../HealthyPeoplePresentation_2_24_11.p…

https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/healthy-people-in-action/Consortium-Members

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/advocacy

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