Healthy People 2020: Physical Activity an Effort to Decrease Childhood Obesity Florida International University Care of Communities: Community Health Nursing NUR4636 Professor Maria De Los Santos April 16‚ 2014 Healthy People provide a 10-year national objective for improving the health of Americans. It has established benchmarks and monitored progress over time in order to encourage collaborations across the country‚ empowering individuals toward making knowledgeable
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For many people‚ not everyone knows of the nationally recognized group Healthy People. This organization’s known as a program of nationwide health promotion and disease-prevention goals set by the United States Department of Health and Human Services. The goals were first set in 1979‚ for the following decade. These goals subsequently have been updated for Healthy People 2000‚ 2010‚ and 2020. In 2010‚ the two overarching goals that happened to be the primary targets for Healthy People included increasing
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Healthy People 2020 Assignment 1. Access the Healthy People 2020 website by Google search or at: www.healthypeople2020.gov 2. From the home page: click on ‘2020 Topics & Objectives’. a. From this page you can peruse the list of 2020 topics. b. Clicking on a topic will take you to that topic. 3. ASSIGNMENT a. Choose 5 topics. b. For each topic write: i. Name of the TOPIC ii. GOAL iii. OVERVIEW (brief‚ may truncate
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Pediatric Healthy People 2020 The organization Healthy People 2020 establishes benchmarks while monitoring the progress over time (healthypeople.gov). They empower individuals to make healthier decisions while trying to prevent infection/illness‚ and they collaborate with different groups and organizations for the best outcome by using evidence base practice (healthypeople.gov). One of the most common vaccinations is the measles‚ mumps‚ and rubella also known as the M.M.R. A child receives this
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As a new measure‚ Healthy People 2020‚ has extended their scope to include global health. In cooperation with global agencies such as the United Nations and the World Health Organization‚ the agency is monitoring global health through surveillance‚ detection‚ and prevention. This
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Healthy People 2020: Childhood Immunizations Every year‚ the number of preventable diseases fluctuates. In 2008 the number of measles cases worldwide was 147‚181‚ and in 2011 the number of cases was 356‚632. However‚ in 2014‚ the number was back down to 138‚386 (Council on Foreign Relations‚ n.d.). The suffering related to childhood preventable diseases like: polio‚ measles‚ mumps‚ chicken pox‚ and whooping cough‚ is a tragedy that not only affects the infected individual‚ but also the family‚ community
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One of the topics and objectives of healthy People 2020 is Diabetes: D-5 Improve glycemic control among persons with diabetes. School nurses play a huge role helping teenage students to control their blood sugar on a daily basis. The nurse monitors if students have appropriate supplies‚ checks if students withdraw the right amount of insulin. If the nurse notices that student’s blood sugar is constantly high for a period of time‚ he/she reaches student’s HCP and clarifies if there is a need to change
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The results of focus this community to promote healthy nutrition and maintenance of healthy body weight to prevent diseases‚ resident disability‚ death and decreased illness inherited new generation. The Nutrition and Weight Status objectives for Healthy People 2020 display great supporting in healthy body weight preservation and balance nutrition for all ages residents. Additionally‚ population behaviors‚ skills and education point up in this objective as well policies and City of Hialeah organizations
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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
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Healthy People 2020 is a program launched in 2010 that provides a science-based 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans. This program established benchmarks and monitored progress in the healthcare system over time with the aim of encouraging collaborations across the communities and sectors‚ empowering individuals towards making informed health decisions as well as measure the impact of prevention activities in the country (CDC‚ 2008). Healthy people 2020 indicate that
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