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3 Development of Healthy People 2010
Pages 15-18

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... DEVELOPMENT OF PRIORITY AREAS AND OBJECTIVES Efforts to develop the priority areas and their concomitant objectives are predicted to be enhanced from those ofthe year2000 initiative by a variety of factors including a broadened science base, especially in the area of health promotion and disease prevention; enhanced surveillance and data systems; a heightened awareness of health promotion and disease prevention among traditional health care agencies complemented by the activities of the general public and community groups; an emphasis on monitoring the quality of health care services; changes in epidemiologic knowledge about disease risk factors and methods of effective intervention; and finally, through the decade, alterations in population demographics and access to health care services. In recognition of the potential complexity of maintaining and expanding the Healthy People process in response to these diverse forces, efforts to develop the content of Healthy People 2010 have been already begun.
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From page 16...
... Congress, agencies of state and local governments, health care agencies, and other diverse organizations. The Healthy People Consortium met again on November 7' 1997, in Indianapolis' Indiana to discuss in detail the specific issue of reducing health disparities and how far the nation has come in doing so.
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From page 17...
... protection of health, (3) assurance of access to quality health care services, and (4)
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From page 18...
... action-oriented including suggestions for a set of interim steps requisite to achieving the proposed target by 2010; 4. useful and relevant to states, localities, and the private sector in a manner that activities targeted to corrununity organizations such as schools, work sites, health settings, and churches are facilitated and encouraged; 5.
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