FAR EASTERN UNIVERSITY

Institute of Nursing
Nicanor Reyes Sr. St., Sampaloc, Manila
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Healthy People 2020: Focuses on the Determinants of Health

● A renewed focus on identifying, measuring, tracking, and reducing health disparities through
determinants of health approach.
— This is an agenda by which a continuation of what has been started during the past years. Its
difference from Healthy People 2010 is that it focuses on the determinants of health (health
services, employment/ working conditions, education and literacy, physical environments, social
support networks, personal health practices and coping skills, social environments, healthy child
development, biological and genetic endowment, culture, financial and social status, and gender)
while the Healthy People 2010 focused on understanding and improving health.

● Vision: A society in which all people live long, healthy lives.

— It envisions a society that lives longer than there average normal life span by implementing
things that will sustain a healthy living to people.

● Mission: Healthy People 2020 strives to:

○ Provide measurable objectives and goals that are applicable at the national, State,
and local levels.
— The good thing about healthy people is, it is not just for a state but it is internationally applied
which we can see that is really helpful. Without it our world could experience more difficulties in
life which also can affects our world environmentally.
○ Identify nationwide health improvement priorities.
—Healthy People 2020 identify nationwide health improvement priorities by
○ Increase public awareness and understanding of the determinants of health, disease,
and disability and the opportunities for progress.
—Social determinants of health are conditions in the environments in which people are born, live,
learn, work, play, worship, and age and resources enhance people’s quality of life that affect a
wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks. The five (5) key areas of
social determinants of health (SDOH), was developed by Healthy People 2020 including economic
stability, education, social and community context, health and health care, neighborhood and built
environment.
○ Engage multiple sectors to take actions to strengthen policies and improve practices
that are
driven by the best available evidence and knowledge.
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 ○ Identify critical research, evaluation, and data collection needs.
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● Goals
○ Attain high-quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and
premature death.
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○ Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups.
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○ Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all.
— It create social and physical environments meaning if you have influenced one person you can
also influence many people to promote the agenda of Healthy People 2020 which is to promote
good health for all.
○ Promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors across all life
stages
— Implementing the Healthy People 2020 is not or never will be a problem because it is
the one which helps people to be healthy and promote quality of living at all times. We just have
to apply it to people’s behavior or way of living and in that there are things which they can benefit
from it for their own lives.

Four foundation health measures will serve as an indicator of progress towards achieving these
goals:
1. General Health Status
2. Health-Related Quality of Life and Well-Being
3. Determinants of Health
4. Disparities

Topic areas for 2020:

Blood Disorders and Blood Dyscracias Adolescent Health

Safety Dementias, Including Alzheimer’s Genomics

Disease

Early and Middle Childhood Global Health

Healthcare-Associated Infections Older Adults

 Health-Related Quality of Life and Well- Preparedness
Being

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Sleep Health

Health

Social Determinants of Health

One specific topic areas which is in the trend is the LGBT Health.