With 2010 nearly over, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has updated its Healthy People program to reduce health risk factors and disparities, providing new topics and objectives for 2020.Wanna bet?
The Healthy People initiative began in 1979 with a Surgeon General's report, which set public health targets to be reached by 1990. It has been revised in 10 year increments ever since.
The 2020 version identifies nearly 600 objectives, ranging from homicides to smoking cessation attempts, in 42 topic areas.
In announcing the update, HHS called the new targets and objectives "ambitious yet achievable."
Thursday, December 30, 2010
HHS Launches Healthy People 2020
Hallelujah! Since Healthy People 2010 was such a success.
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