Healthy People 2020: A Case Study

HP2020 is not only focused on the health of the individual, but it also includes eliminating disparities, while improving the health of all groups of people. Healthy People 2020 defines health equity as the “attainment of the highest level of health for all people (Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, 2016). Achieving health equity requires valuing everyone equally with focused and ongoing societal efforts to address avoidable inequalities, historical and contemporary injustices, and the elimination of health and health care disparities.
Healthy People 2020 defines a health disparity as “a particular type of health difference that is closely linked with social, economic, and/or environmental disadvantage” (ODPHP, 2016). Health