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2 Historical Overview of Healthy People
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... The first such effort began with the report from the Surgeon General on health promotion and disease prevention entitled Healthy People: The Surgeon General 's Report on Health Promotion an1Disease Prevention IS. Public Health Service, 1979~.
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... and Apr. 1997 Briefing for Secretary for Health and Human Services on Healthy People 2010 proposed objectives July 1997 Publication of focus group report on utility of Healthy People 2010 Sept.
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... Healthy People: The Surgeon General 's Report on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (U.S. Public Health Services, 1979)
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... required not only by physicians and other health professionals, but also by industry and labor, by voluntary health associations, schools, churches, and consumer groups, by health planners, and by legislators and public officials in health departments and in other agencies of the local and State governments and at the Federal level (U.S. Public Health Service, 1980~.
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... has provided the framework for the design, implementation, and evaluation of public health activities for the ensuing three decades The initial document included 15 strategic areas and a total of 226 objectives focused on improving health status and reducing behaviors that place health at risk through the use of interventions to reduce mortality and morbidity, as well as to promote prevention and behaviors that protect health. Implementation of the specific objectives was facilitated by the establishment of work groups from each ofthe lead federal health agencies contributing to the development ofthe 1990 priorities and objectives.
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... Public Health Service, 1983~. Evaluation of the Objectives for the Nation report occurred at two distinct levels, including periodic progress reviews and a midcourse review.
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... The periodic reviews were published as briefings in Public Health Service Progress Review Reports on Healthy People 2000, with the first such review published in 1992 (National Center for Health Statistics, ~992~. Additionalbriefings were publishedin ~994 and ~997 end focused on the presence and absence of positive and negative changes noted since the 1990 publication of Healthy People 2000 (National Center for Health Statistics, 1994, 1997~.
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... Public Health Service, 1995~. It is notable that along with the midcourse review for Healthy People 2000, efforts were made to develop an electronic inventory of data sets relevant to the monitoring of Healthy People 2000 at the national level.
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... 14 LEADING HEALTHINDICATORS FOR HEALTHY PEOPLE 2010 for cross referencing objectives with specific data sets and to provide an assessment of each data set regarding the level at which it was appropriate to measure the 319 quantifiable objectives.


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