In 2010 December, the department of health and human services began Healthy People 2020.
This is an initiative that is aimed at ensuring that all people have access to good health.
It is an initiative that was developed with the main goal of ensuring that there is equity in access of good health services for all people.
It was developed based on the fact that there is a high population of people who do not access good medical services because they are disadvantaged in one way or the other.
Healthy people 2020 also aims to reduce the deaths that result from preventable disease pr other hazards that can be prevented.
So, what are the goals of Healthy People 2020?
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Attain longer lives
One of the major goals of healthy people 2020 is to increase the life expectancy of people
It aims to ensure that people live a longer and high quality lives.
This should be done by ensuring that deaths caused by preventable diseases are reduced.
These are diseases that can be prevented through different means such as vaccinations, maintaining proper hygiene and public health awareness. In addition, such quality of lives should also be improved by ensuring people live life free of injury, disability or premature deaths.
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Enhance health equity
One of the major challenges that hinder attainment of good health care for all is health inequality.
Those people with low income do not attain quality health care services because of the costs involved. Healthy people 2020 aims to eliminate disparities attain health equity and improve the health of all groups of people in the entire population.
This is aimed at ensuring all people can attain good medical services not only at an affordable rate, but also near them.
This will reduce the burden of them having to travel long distances to seek for health.
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Promote quality of life
Another healthy people 2020 goals is to promote quality of life among the people.
This is aimed at ensuring that there is healthy development and people adopt to healthy behaviors across all stages in life. This is aimed at ensuring that people do not die from risky behaviors.
This is done by creating public awareness on the risks of such behaviors that can lead to deaths. With the light healthy development the child mortality rates and premature deaths will also subside.
