Healthy People 2010 , started in January 2000 by the United States Department of Health and Human Services

United States Department of Health and Human Services

The United States Department of Health and Human Services is a Cabinet department of the United States government with the goal of protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services. Its motto is "Improving the health, safety, and well-being of America"...

, is a nationwide health promotion

Health promotion

Health promotion has been defined by the World Health Organization's 2005 Bangkok Charter for Health Promotion in a Globalized World as "the process of enabling people to increase control over their health and its determinants, and thereby improve their health"...

 and disease

Disease

A disease is an abnormal condition affecting the body of an organism. It is often construed to be a medical condition associated with specific symptoms and signs. It may be caused by external factors, such as infectious disease, or it may be caused by internal dysfunctions, such as autoimmune...

 prevention plan to be achieved by the year 2010. Programs such as HealthCorps

HealthCorps

HealthCorps is an American non-profit organization that responds to the obesity crisis through school-based health education and peer-mentoring in addition to community outreach to underserved populations – mostly Hispanic and African-American....

 grew out of this plan.

Description

Healthy People 2010 "was developed through a broad consultation process, built on the best scientific knowledge and designed to measure programs over time". It is composed of 467 specific objectives organized into 28 focus areas, as well as two overarching goals. The two goals are:

• "increase quality and years of healthy life"
• "eliminate health disparities
  Health disparities
  Health equity refers to the study of differences in the quality of health and health care across different populations....
  
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To track the Healthy People 2010 objectives, national data are being gathered from 190 sources. Ten "Leading Health Indicators" reflect major health concerns:

• physical activity
• overweight
  Overweight
  Overweight is generally defined as having more body fat than is optimally healthy. Being overweight is a common condition, especially where food supplies are plentiful and lifestyles are sedentary...
  
   and obesity
  Obesity
  Obesity is a medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it may have an adverse effect on health, leading to reduced life expectancy and/or increased health problems...
  
  
• tobacco
  Tobacco
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   use
• substance abuse
  Substance abuse
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• responsible sexual behavior
  Human sexual behavior
  Human sexual activities or human sexual practices or human sexual behavior refers to the manner in which humans experience and express their sexuality. People engage in a variety of sexual acts from time to time, and for a wide variety of reasons...
  
  
• mental health
  Mental health
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• injury
  Injury
  -By cause:*Traumatic injury, a body wound or shock produced by sudden physical injury, as from violence or accident*Other injuries from external physical causes, such as radiation injury, burn injury or frostbite*Injury from infection...
  
   and violence
  Violence
  Violence is the use of physical force to apply a state to others contrary to their wishes. violence, while often a stand-alone issue, is often the culmination of other kinds of conflict, e.g...
  
  
• environmental quality
  Environmental quality
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• immunization
  Immunization
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• access to health care
  Health care
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The campaign identifies 6 major factors (Social Identities) that contribute to disparities in the health of Americans:

• gender
• race or ethnicity
• education or income
• disability
  Disability
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• geographic location
• sexual orientation
  Sexual orientation
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Healthy People 2000 and Healthy People 2020

Healthy People 2010 expanded and updated the 1979 "Healthy People" and 1990 "Healthy People 2000" efforts; for example, the Healthy People 2000 goal of "reducing health disparities" was strengthened in Healthy People 2010 to "eliminate health disparities".

Healthy People 2020 expanded on Healthy People 2010 and was presented on 2 December 2010.