Partners in Prevention: A Mobilization Plan for Implementing Healthy People 2000

acknowledged the nation’s progress in biomedical research and refocused emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention during the decade of the ’80s. Physicians, public health workers, health practitioners, health educators, and community health organizations have joined ranks to emphasize health promotion and disease prevention as a more humane and a more economical route to good health than the more costly, painful, and life-disruptive procedures necessitated by after-the-fact treatment and curative measures.