[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 95 (Tuesday, May 16, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31172-31173]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-12183]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Office of the Secretary


Healthy People 2010

AGENCY: DHHS/OS/Office of Public Health and Science, Office of Disease 
Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP).

ACTION: Notice of change in program announcements of the Department of 
Health and Human Services to reflect the advent of Healthy People 2010, 
the national health goals/targets for the first decade of the 21st 
century.

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SUMMARY: Certain program announcements by the Department of Health and 
Human Services have included references to the principles and 
objectives of Healthy People 2000, the national health promotion and 
disease prevention initiative in effect during the decade of the 
1990's. With the conclusion of that initiative at the turn of the 
century, the successor initiative, Healthy People 2010, supplants 
Healthy People 2000 in all such references.

DATES: This change is effective as of January 25, 2000, the date of 
public release of Healthy People 2010, except that it does not affect 
program announcements concerning grants, cooperative agreements, or 
contracts already in force from years prior to 2000 or currently in 
effect in fiscal year 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Office of Disease Prevention and 
Health Promotion, Room 738-G Hubert H.

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Humphrey Building, 200 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, DC 20201, 
(202) 401-6295.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:  

Background

    In 1979, the Department of Health and Human Services began an 
initiative to use health promotion and disease prevention objectives to 
improve the health of people living in the United States. The first set 
of national health targets was published that year in Healthy People: 
the Surgeon General's Report on Health Promotion and Disease 
Prevention, which included five goals to be achieved by 1990 to reduced 
mortality among four different age groups and increase independence 
among older adults. The goals were supported by objectives that were 
released in 1980, also with 1990 targets.
    This national health agenda has since been reformulated in each 
succeeding decade. Healthy People 2000, the second national prevention 
initiative, reflected the progress and experience of ten years, as well 
as an expanded science base and surveillance system. With the 
collaboration of an extensive network of voluntary and professional 
organizations, businesses, and individuals, the framework of Healthy 
People 2000 was designed with three broad goals--increasing the span of 
healthy life, reducing health disparities, and achieving access to 
clinical preventive services. To help meet those goals, over 300 
objectives with targets, organized into 22 priority areas, aimed to 
achieve improvements in health status, risk reduction, and service 
delivery. The most recent data available show that about 60 percent of 
the objectives had either met their target or were progressing toward 
the target.
    The challenges and successes of the Healthy People 2000 initiative 
have served as the starting points for Healthy People 2010. While its 
framework is based on the initiatives of the previous two decades, 
Healthy People 2010 differs from previous efforts. The initiative has 
grown to 28 focus areas and 467 objectives. The two overarching goals 
are: (1) Increase quality and years of healthy life; and (2) eliminate 
health disparities. Healthy People 2010 acknowledges that the many 
national advances in health have not been enjoyed equally by all 
demographic groups in the United States. It calls for the elimination 
of these disparities over the next ten years.

Citation in Announcements

    References to the national health promotion initiative appear in 
numerous program announcements of the Department of Health and Human 
Services. Examples of such citations, updated to reflect the transition 
to Healthy People 2010, include but are not limited to the following 
(superseded text in brackets):
    ``The (Agency name) is committed to achieving the health promotion 
and disease prevention objectives of Healthy People 2010 [2000], a 
national activity to reduce morbidity and mortality and improve the 
quality of life. This announcement is related to the Healthy People 
2010 [2000] focus [priority] area(s) (one or more of 28 areas). . . .''
    ``The following additional requirements are applicable to this 
program. (Listed sequentially from AR-1 et seq. if applicable) AR-11 
Healthy People 2010 [2000]''
    ``Potential applicants may obtain a copy of the Healthy People 2010 
[2000] objectives from/by * * * (with ordering instructions as provided 
in the following paragraph).''

Availability of Documents

    Volumes I and II of Healthy People 2010: Conference Edition (B0074) 
are for sale at $22 per set by the ODPHP Communication Support Center, 
P.O. Box 37366, Washington, D.C. 20013-7366. Each of the 28 chapters of 
Healthy People 2010 is priced at $2 per copy. Telephone orders can be 
placed to the Center on (301) 468-5690. The Center also sells the 
complete Conference edition in CD-ROM format (B0071) for $5.
    This publication is available as well on the Internet at 
www.health.gov/healthypeople. Web site viewers should proceed to 
``Publications''.

    Dated: May 8, 2000.
David Satcher,
Assistant Secretary for Health and Surgeon General.
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