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Wednesday, May 05, 2010

A 2020 Vision for Healthy People

A 2020 Vision for Healthy People

Howard K. Koh, M.D., M.P.H.
How can we best advance the collective health of the United States, while monitoring our progress? This year offers another opportunity to revisit this fundamental yet profound question through the lens of the Healthy People initiative. In setting the country’s health-promotion and disease-prevention agenda for the past three decades, Healthy People has articulated overarching goals and tracked movement toward established targets. As we prepare for the next decade, the initiative aims to unify national dialogue about health, motivate action, and encourage new directions in health promotion, providing a public health roadmap and compassfor the country./.../

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