A review of Healthy People 2020

Next we will review Healthy People 2020, launched Dec. 2, 2010. Healthy People provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans. For three decades, Healthy People has established benchmarks and monitored progress over time in order to: encourage collaborations across sectors, guide individuals toward making informed health decisions, measure the impact of prevention activities.(4)

The vision of Healthy People is a society in which all people live long, healthy lives, to help them attain high-quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death. The framework is available at www.healthypeople.gov/2020/Consortium/HP2020Framework.pdf.

References
4. www.healthypeople.gov/2020/about/default.aspx.