http://www.health.gov/healthypeople/ This Department of Health and Human Services site lists goals for improved health in 2010 and progress toward these goals.
Healthy People 2010 is a set of health objectives for the nation to achieve over the first decade of the new century. Healthy People 2010 builds on initiatives pursued over the past 20 years, including the 1979 Surgeon General's Report, Healthy People, and Healthy People 2000: National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives. Implemented by the federal government with partners from more than 400 health organizations.
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A comprehensive set of 10-year health objectives for the Nation. On the Web at http://www.health.gov/healthypeople/.
Healthy People 2010 provides a framework for prevention for the Nation. It is a statement of national health objectives designed to identify the most significant preventable threats to health and to establish national goals to reduce these threats.
the national prevention initiative that identifies opportunities to improve the health of all Americans, with specific and measurable objectives to be met by 2010.
Healthy People 2010 was started in January 2000 by the United States Department of Health and Human Services. It is a nationwide health promotion and disease prevention plan that is composed of 467 specific objectives, 28 goals, and two overarching goals to be achieved by 2010.