What is Healthy people 2010

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. Healthy People 2010 "was developed through a broad consultation process, built on the best scientific knowledge and designed to measure programs over time. It is composed of 467 specific objectives organized into 28 focus areas, as well as goals .

The 2 Main Goal Of Healthy People 2010

Goal 1: Increase Quality and Years of Healthy Life
The first goal of Healthy People 2010 is to help individuals of all ages increase life expectancy and improve their quality of life.

Goal 2: Eliminate Health Disparities

The second goal of Healthy People 2010 is to eliminate health disparities among different segments of the population.

To track the Healthy People 2010 objectives, national data are being gathered from 190 sources. Ten "Leading Health Indicators" reflect major health concerns
1. Physical activity 2. Overweight and obesity 3. Tobacco use 4. Substance abuse 5. Responsible sexual behavior 6. Mental health 7. Injury and violence 8. Environmental quality 9. Immunization 10.Access to health care

The Impact Of Healthy People 2010

The national public health goals produced through the Healthy People 2010 process have a significant impact on the efforts of local, state and national governmental agencies as well as on the private sector . Its enables diverse groups to combine their efforts and work as a team, to achieve the same goal of promoting Healthy lifestyle. Its can be used by many different people, States, communities, professional organizations, 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

1. Increase activities of promoting Healthy from all sector, such as: The government and private sector work together to achieved the goal of Healthy People 2010 2. Effort of Private Sector HHS and other Federal agencies serve as coordinators for specific focus areas of Healthy People 2010. 3. Increase in studies and research on how to increase years of healthy life and how to eliminate healthy disparities. 4. Increase in emergency medicine health care funding and legislation.

5. . It provides a comprehensive picture of the nations health, by identifying threats to our health, establishing goals, and measuring progress towards those goal. 6. Healthy People 2010 gives the nation, healthcare organizations, communities, and individuals a framework for actions to improve health. 7. Individual and consumers become more knowledgeable about health information, services, and technologies.

Disadvantages of Healthy People 2010

Even thought Healthy People 2010 has been recognized as a future healthy plan, from current research, its still lack in certain area . Healthy People 2010, not mention people living with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. There is also diversity in terms of where people live. Healthy People 2010 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 staff and 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 client. Healthy People 2010 also lack of country involvement, it only focuses in certain developing country.

Healthy People 2010 to Malaysia Even thought Malaysia is one of the developing country, but Malaysian still lack of knowledge and awareness of future health plan. The Impact of Healthy People 2010 to Malaysia only can been see in certain level of community. For educational practices, the research has been work out in how to improve healthy life style.

Conclusion
 The 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 will not be ended and will be continue as the world are facing challenge of many decease and uncertain health status.

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