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Healthy People 2010 and Steps to a HealthierUS: Leading Prevention
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Overview
  • Healthy People 2010
  • The President’s HealthierUS Initiative
  • DHHS Steps to a HealthierUS Initiative





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Relationship
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Healthy People 2010

  • History
  • Goals
  • Approach
  • Implementation


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History
  • 1979-The Surgeon General’s Report on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
  • 1980- Promoting Health/Preventing Disease: Objectives for the Nation
  • 1990-Healthy People 2000
  • 2000-Healthy People 2010


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Goals


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Approach
  • A set of 10-year, evidenced-based disease prevention and health promotion objectives
  • The result of an extensive collaborative process
  • A systematic approach for promoting Healthy People in Healthy Communities
    • A comprehensive set of national objectives
    • Addresses all determinants of health
    • Measures health status

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A Rich Data Resource
  • Healthy People draws from a variety of data sources
  • Healthy People reviews a large number of data points
  • Healthy People is the most comprehensive source of health data in the nation


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Implementation
  • State Plans – Go Iowa!
  • Consortium
  • Partnerships
  • Progress Reviews
  • Midcourse Review
  • Final Review



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Midcourse Review – Purpose
  • Report progress toward the national health promotion and disease prevention objectives
  • Opportunity to assess progress toward Healthy People 2010’s two overarching goals
  • Reveals areas that are facing challenges
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Federal Leadership for Healthy People 2010
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Relationship
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Headlines
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Trends in Obesity-Related Media Coverage
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HealthierUS
  • The President’s Health and Fitness Initiative


  • Created by Presidential Executive Order – June 2002
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HealthierUS Executive Order
  • “Uses the resources of the Federal Government to alert Americans to the vital health benefits of simple and modest improvements in physical activity, nutrition and behavior.”


    • Reinvigorated the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports


    • Directed federal agencies to work together and draw on their collective resources
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HealthierUS Mission
  • Focus on four health pillars
    •  Be physically active
    •  Eat a nutritious diet
    •  Get preventive screenings
    •  Make healthy choices


  • To prevent disease, disability and death and help Americans lead safer, healthier, longer lives



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Actions Around HealthierUS
  • Reinvigoration of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports


  • Partnerships within the Federal Government
    • HealthierChildren and Youths
    • Public Health and Recreation
    • 5 A Day
    • Healthier Worksite Project



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Federal Leadership for HealtherUS
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Relationship
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Steps to a HealthierUS

  • History
  • Goals
  • Approach
  • Implementation


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History
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Chronic Disease Epidemic
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Statistics
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Steps-Goals
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Steps-Approach
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HHS Agencies Involved in Steps to a HealthierUS
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Steps-Implementation
  • Community Support
    • Fund Steps grants program to support public-private partnerships
  • Collaboration
    • Create synergy among HHS agencies/programs
  • Resources
    • Provide guidance, tools and expertise
  • Visibility
    • Increase awareness of the impact of chronic diseases
  • Policy
    • Support prevention and behavioral change
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Steps-Nationwide Activities
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Steps-Grant Program
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Steps-Grant Interventions
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STEPS Awardees Representing 23 Communities
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Steps-Partnerships
  • Invitation to leaders in business, community and tribal organizations, and state and local government
  • A way to provide innovative opportunities to promote healthier living
  • Not a grant or contract award program



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Steps - Resources
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Public-Private Partnerships
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Conference
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Relationship
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