Healthy People 2000 and Community Health Planning

Healthy People 2000

Sir A very welcome recent editorial in the Journal (Smith, 1991) addressed the important question of the use of LHRH analogues in breast cancer, but we do not consider all of the viewpoints expressed to be either definitive or necessarily correct: Firstly, the word analogues is used throughout as being synonymous with LHRH agonists. This is now a historical viewpoint as pure LHRH antagonists ar...

Healthy People 2000: national health promotion and disease prevention objectives (excerpts). US Public Health Service.

The US Public Health Service recently completed and published Healthy People 2000: National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives. The report is the culmination of a national effort, representing the work of citizens, professionals, organizations, and communities, and the cooperation of numerous federal agencies. The overall goal of the report and its objectives are to prevent unne...

Healthy People 2000 midcourse revisions: a compendium.

As part of the continuing evaluation of the health of Americans, a midcourse review of the Healthy People 2000 objectives (1) added several new objectives and identified changes to some of the objectives released in 1990 (2). The midcourse review also documented numerous previous revisions to Healthy People 2000 baselines (3) and the setting of new targets for some objectives. The purpose of th...

People Attitudes and Perceptions to the Urban Landscape Planning in Niro Daryaee Edged Community of Tehran

Evaluating Chicago's success in reaching the Healthy People 2000 goal of reducing health disparities.

OBJECTIVE This study was designed to assess Chicago's progress from 1980 to 1998 in addressing the Healthy People 2000 goal of reducing health disparities. METHODS Chicago vital statistics and surveillance data were used to calculate black:white rate ratios of mortality and morbidity for 1980-1998. Mortality and morbidity rate ratios were also used to compare people living in areas with the l...