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Objectives Retained As Is From Healthy People 2010

MICH HP2020–1: Reduce the rate of child deaths.
MICH HP2020–2: Reduce deaths of adolescents and young adults.
MICH HP2020–3: Reduce maternal deaths.
MICH HP2020–4: Reduce maternal illness and complications due to pregnancy (complications during hospitalized labor and delivery).
MICH HP2020–5: Increase the proportion of pregnant women who receive early and adequate prenatal care.
MICH HP2020–6: Reduce cesarean births among low-risk (full-term, singleton, vertex presentation) women.
MICH HP2020–7: Reduce low birth weight (LBW) and very low birth weight (VLBW).
MICH HP2020–8: Reduce preterm births.
MICH HP2020–9: Increase the percentage of healthy full-term infants who are put down to sleep on their backs.
MICH HP2020–10: Increase abstinence from alcohol, cigarettes, and illicit drugs among pregnant women.
MICH HP2020–11: Reduce the occurrence of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS).
MICH HP2020–12:

Increase the proportion of mothers who breastfeed their babies.

MICH HP2020–13: Increase the proportion of children with special health care needs who have access to a medical home.
MICH HP2020–14: Increase the proportion of children with special health care needs who receive their care in family-centered, comprehensive, coordinated systems.

Objectives Retained But Modified From Healthy People 2010

MICH HP2020–15: Reduce fetal and infant deaths.
MICH HP2020–16: Increase the proportion of pregnant women who attend a series of prepared childbirth classes.
MICH HP2020–17: (Developmental) Increase the proportion of mothers who achieve a recommended weight gain during their pregnancies.
MICH HP2020–18: Reduce the proportion of children diagnosed with a metabolic disorder through newborn screening who experience developmental delay requiring special education services.
MICH HP2020–19: Decrease the proportion of children with cerebral palsy born as low-birth-weight infants (< 2,500 grams).
MICH HP2020–20:

Reduce the occurrence of neural tube defects.

MICH HP2020–21: Increase the proportion of pregnancies begun with the recommended folic acid level.
MICH HP2020–22: Ensure appropriate newborn blood-spot screening and followup testing.

Objectives New to Healthy People 2020

MICH HP2020–23: Decrease postpartum relapse of smoking among women who quit smoking during pregnancy.
MICH HP2020–24: Increase the percentage of women giving birth who attend a postpartum care visit with a health worker.
MICH HP2020–25: Among women delivering a live birth, increase the percentage who receive preconception care services and practice key recommended preconception health behaviors.
MICH HP2020–26: Increase the percentage of employers who have worksite lactation programs.
MICH HP2020–27: Decrease the percentage of breast-fed newborns who receive formula supplementation within the first 2 days of life.
MICH HP2020–28: Increase the percentage of live births that occur in facilities that provide recommended care for lactating mothers and their babies.
MICH HP2020–29: Increase the 1-year survival rates for infants with Down syndrome.
MICH HP2020–30:

Increase the percentage of young children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and other developmental delays who are screened, evaluated, and enrolled in early intervention services in a timely manner.

MICH HP2020–31: Reduce the proportion of persons aged 18 to 44 years who have impaired fecundity (i.e., a physical barrier preventing pregnancy or carrying a pregnancy to term).

Objectives Moved to Another Healthy People Topic Area

HP2010 16-21:

Reduce hospitalization for sickle cell disease among children aged 9 years and under.

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