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May 5, 2010New England Journal of Medicine203 citations

A 2020 Vision for Healthy People

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HKHoward K. Koh

Key Points

  • To articulate the strategic vision, overarching goals, and public health tracking framework for the Healthy People 2020 national initiative.
  • Reviewed three decades of historical data and progress benchmarks from previous iterations of the Healthy People initiative.
  • Established nationwide health-promotion targets and a unified tracking framework to monitor disease-prevention priorities across the country.
  • Provides a structured public health roadmap designed to guide state, local, and national health policies over the next decade.
  • Unifies national dialogue and mobilizes multi-sector collaboration to systematically measure and improve collective population health outcomes.

Abstract

How can we best advance the collective health of the United States, while monitoring our progress? This year offers another opportunity to revisit this fundamental yet profound question through the lens of the Healthy People initiative. In setting the country's health-promotion and disease-prevention agenda for the past three decades, Healthy People has articulated overarching goals and tracked movement toward established targets. As we prepare for the next decade, the initiative aims to unify national dialogue about health, motivate action, and encourage new directions in health promotion, providing a public health roadmap and compass for the country.The initiative, launched by . . .

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synapsesocial.com/papers/6a179a2a56b3e2ada4129427https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmp1001601
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