Healthy People 2000 Citizens Chart the Course (1990) / Chapter Skim
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The range of endpoints encompassed by the objectives included improved health status, reduced risk factors, increased public and professional awareness, improved services and protection, and improved surveillance and evaluation systems. During the 1980s, these objectives for improving clinical preventive services, health protection, and health promotion provided a common strategy and a frame of reference that sparked new initiatives by state and local governments and community organizations and increased interagency cooperation in the federal government.
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By 1985, the United States was on the way to meeting about half of the 1990 Objectives, and the country has seen major reductions in the amount of illness and death in specified categories for infants, children, and adults.4 The success of the 1990 Objectives demonstrates vividly that a well-formulated set of national health promotion and disease prevention objectives can increase interagency and intergovernmental cooperation and can provide a lasting health promotion/ disease prevention strategy that will continue to capture public interest over time. Health promotion and disease prevention deserve a massive, interdisc~plinary effort from government and the private sector.
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The PHS and the IOM also have convened a Year 2000 Health Objectives Consortium Qf more than 300 national professional and voluntary organizations and state and territorial health departments to help guide the hearing process. These organizations held their own special hearings on the objectives, submitted official written testimony, and helped review the draft objectives.
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More than one-fourth of those who testified stressed health promotion issues, including behavior modification and health education. Speakers asked for strengthened programs dealing with smoking and smokeless tobacco use, alcohol and drug abuse, nutrition, physical fitness, and mental health.
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infection, sexually transmitted diseases, infectious diseases, maternal and infant health problems, adolescent pregnancy, heart disease and stroke, cancer, other chronic and disabling conditions, and oral health problems. The following three groupings correspond roughly to the three categories that have come to represent health promotion and disease prevention activities and the national objectives.
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Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, November 1986 TESTIFIERS CITED IN CHAPTER 1 149 Michael, Jerrold; University of Hawaii School of Public Health 465 Entmacher, Paul; Metropolitan Life Insurance Company 750 Richland, Jud; Association of State and Territorial Health Officials 6 Healthy People 2000: Citizens Char the Course
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