Module Components

• Overview
• Assignments

Topics

• Assessing Health Status
• Addressing the Challenge
• Modifiable Lifestyle Risk Factors
  • Smoking
  • High Blood Pressure
  • Elevated Serum Cholesterol
  • Diet, Overweight, Obesity and Physical Inactivity
  • Impact of Multiple Risk Factors

NRSG 780 - Health Promotion and Population Health

Module 2: Determinants of Health

Addressing the Challenge

U.S. Is Falling Short of Its Potential in Health

The Institute of Medicine in its report on The Future of the Public Health in the 21st Century identified the U.S. as falling short of its health potential.

The National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine investigated potential reasons for the U.S. health disadvantage. The find­ings are detailed in its report, U.S. Health in International Perspective: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health.

 

Healthy People 2030

 

 

 

 

 

To address the health challenges, the U.S. continues to refine it national health planning priorities. With Healthy People 2030, the U.S. emphasizes health promotion as the means to improve the health status of the population.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The overarching goals of Healthy People 2030 include:

• Attain high quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death.
• Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups.
• Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all.
• Promote quality of life, healthy development and healthy behaviors across all life stages.

• Attain healthy, thriving lives and well-being free of preventable diseases, disability, injury, and premature death.
• Eliminate health disparities, achieve health equity, and attain health literacy to improve the health and well-being of all.
• Create social, physical, and economic environments that promote attaining the full potential for health and well-being for all.
• Promote healthy development, healthy behaviors, and well-being across all life stages.
• Engage leadership, key constituents, and the public across multiple sectors to take action and design policies that improve the health and well-being of all.

Healthy People 2030 uses more than 80 data systems that include  NHANES, BRFSS, and the National Vital Statistics System, to monitor progress toward achieving the 355 objectives.

A smaller set of Healthy People 2030 objectives, referred to as the Leading Health Indicators, drive action toward improving health and well-being across the lifespan; The criteria for the objectives selected as Leading Health Indicators:

• Focus on upstream measures, like risk factors and behaviors, instead of disease outcomes
• Address issues of national importance
• Address high priority public health issues that have a major impact on public health outcomes
• Be modifiable in the short term (through evidence-based interventions and strategies to motivate action on the national, state, local and community levels)
• Address social determinants of health, health disparities and health equity

Source: https://health.gov/healthypeople/objectives-and-data/leading-health-indicators