Disciplines and Occupations

Healthy People Programs

Healthy People Programs are a set of health objectives to be used by governments, communities, professional organizations, and others to help develop programs to improve health. It builds on initiatives pursued over the past two decades beginning with the 1979 Surgeon General's Report, Healthy People, Healthy People 2000: National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives, and Healthy People 2010. These established national health objectives and served as the basis for the development of state and community plans. These are administered by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP). Similar programs are conducted by other national governments.

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Healthy People Programs are a set of health objectives to be used by governments, communities, professional organizations, and others to help develop programs to improve health. It builds on initiatives pursued over the past two decades beginning with the 1979 Surgeon General's Report, Healthy People, Healthy People 2000: National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives, and Healthy People 2010. These established national health objectives and served as the basis for the development of state and community plans. These are administered by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP). Similar programs are conducted by other national governments.

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6 entry terms
  • Healthy People Program
  • Healthy People 2000
  • Healthy People 2010
  • Healthy People 2020
  • Healthy People 2020s
  • People 2020, Healthy

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11 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, supply & distribution, trends.

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specify geographic term if pertinent; CATALOGER: Coordinate with specific NAF entry if applicable

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History Note

2003

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  • Health Promotion (1990-2002)

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WA 525

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Healthy People Programs. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D040361. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D040361
  2. Healthy People Programs. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthy_People_program
  3. Healthy People Programs. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5691426