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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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