IV. USING HEALTHY
PEOPLE 2000 OBJECTIVES* This chapter provides a select list of abbreviated Healthy People 2000 objectives in four targeted areas—community-based, school-based, worksite health promotion, and health care provider initiatives. (Healthy People 2000 priority/focus areas detailed on inside back cover.) Local healthy community coalitions are encouraged to pick and choose among the objectives to create a list of priorities that will lead to the shared vision of health. *Source: USDHHS, PHS (1995). Healthy People 2000: Midcourse Review
and 1995 Revisions. |
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Healthy Community Focus: Community-based Initiatives |
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| Healthy People 2000 National Objective | Healthy People 2000 Target |
1.11
Availability of physical activity and fitness facilities.
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1
per 10,000 people |
| 2.16 Proportion of restaurants and institutional food services offering low-fat, low-calorie food choices. | 90% |
| 3.10 Establishment of tobacco-free environments and tobacco use prevention in all schools. | 100% |
| 3.12 State-enacted comprehensive laws on clean indoor air that prohibit or limit smoking to separately ventilated areas in the workplaceand enclosed public places. | 50 States |
| 3.13
State-enacted laws prohibiting sale and distribution of tobacco products to youth younger than 18. |
50 States |
| 4.15 Driver's license suspension/revocation laws or programs of equal effectiveness for people determined to have been driving under the influence of intoxicants. | 50 States |
| 4.18 Legal blood alcohol concentration tolerance levels of .08 percent for motor vehicle drivers aged 21 and older and lower for those younger than age 21. | 50 States |
| 8.8 Proportion of people 65 and older who participated during the preceding year in at least one organized health promotion program through a community-based facility that serves older adults. | 90% |
| 9.2 Use of safety belts and child safety seats by motor vehicle occupants. | 85% |
9.13 Use of
helmets by
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80% |
| 9.17 Functional smoke detectors on each habitable floor of all inhabited residential dwellings. | 1 per floor |
| 11.6 Proportion of homes in which homeowners/ occupants have tested for radon concentrations and found to have minimal risk or have been modified to reduce risk to health. | 40% |
| 11.9 Proportion of people who receive a supply of drinking water that meets the safe drinkingwater standards established by the Environmental Protection Agency. | 85% |
| 11.11 Testing for lead-based paint in homes built before l950. | 50% |
| 11.15 Establishment of curbside recycling programs and increase in household hazardous waste collection programs. | 50% |
| 7.17 Extension of coordinated, comprehensive violence prevention programs to local jurisdictions with populations over 100,000. | 80% |
| 12.3 Proportion of food preparers who refrain from leaving perishable food out of the refrigerator for over 2 hours and wash cutting boards and utensils with soap after contact with raw meat and poultry. | 75% |
| 13.9 Proportion of people served by community water systems providing optimal levels of fluoride. | 75% |
Healthy Community Focus: School-based Initiatives |
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| Healthy People 2000 National Objective | Healthy People 2000 Target |
| 1.8 Proportion of children and adolescents who participate in daily school physical education. | 50% |
| 2.17 Proportion
of schools and child care food services with menus consistent with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. |
90% |
| 2.19 Schools providing nutrition education from preschool-12th grade, preferably as part ofcomprehensive school health education. | 75% |
| 3.10 Establishment of tobacco-free environments and tobacco use prevention in all schools. | 100% |
| 4.13 Provision to children in all primary and secondary schools educational programs on alcohol and other drugs. | 50 States |
| 7.16 Elementary and secondary schools that teach nonviolent conflict resolution skills. | 50% |
| 8.4 Elementary
and secondary schools that provide planned and sequential kindergarten-12th grade comprehensive school health education. |
75% |
| 13.12 Proportion of schoolchildren entering school who have received an oral health screening, referral, and followup for necessary diagnostic, preventive, and treatment services. | 90% |
| 13.16 Extension of requirement of the use of effective head, face, eye, and mouth protection to all organizations, agencies, and institutions sponsoring sporting and recreation events that pose risks or injury. | |
| 18.10 Proportion of schools that provide appropriate HIV and other STD educational curricula for students in 4th-12th grade, preferably as part of comprehensive school health education. | 95% |
Healthy Community Focus: Worksite Health Promotion Initiatives |
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| Healthy People 2000 National Objective | Healthy People 2000 Target |
| 1.10 Worksites
offering employer-sponsored health promotion programs. (a) 50-99 employees (b) 100-249 employees (c) 250-749 employees (d) more than 750 employees |
20% 35% 50% 80% |
| 2.20 Worksites with 50 or more employees that offer nutrition education and/or weight management programs for employees. | 50% |
| 3.11 Worksites with a formal smoking policy restricting or severely prohibiting smoking at the workplace. | 100% |
| 4.14 Adoption of alcohol and drug policies for the work environment to at least 60 percent of worksites with 50 or more employees. | 60% |
| 6.11 Worksites employing 50 or more people that provide programs to reduce employee stress. | 40% |
| 8.6 Workplaces with 50 or more employees that offer health promotion activities for their employees. | 85% |
| 10.6 Proportion of worksites with 50 or more employees that mandate employee use of occupant protection systems, such as seatbelts, during work-related motor vehicle travel. | 95% |
| 10.9 Hepatitis B immunization levels among occupationally exposed workers. | 90% |
| 10.13 State public health or labor department programs that provide consultation and assistance to small businesses to implementsafety and health programs for their employees. | 50 States |
| 15.16 Proportion of worksites with 50 or more employees that offer high blood pressure and/or cholesterol education programs and control activities to their employees. | 50% |
Healthy Community Focus: Health Care Provider Initiatives |
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| Healthy People 2000 National Objective | Healthy People 2000 Target |
| 6.13 Primary care providers who routinely review with patients their patients' cognitive, emotional, and behavioral functioning and ability to deal with problems. | 60% |
| 8.12 Proportion of hospitals, health maintenance organizations, and large group practices that provide patient education programs and offer community health promotion programs addressing the priority needs of their communities. | 90% |
| 12.8 Proportion of people who receive useful informa-tion verbally and in writing for new prescriptions from prescribers or dispensers. | 75% |
| 15.13 Proportion of adults who have had their blood pressure measured within the preceding 2 years and can state whether their blood pressure was normal or high. | 90% |
| 15.14 Proportion of adults who have had their blood cholesterol checked in the preceding 5 years. | 75% |
| 16.10 Proportion of primary care providers who routinely counsel patients about tobacco use cessation, diet modification, and cancer screening recommendations. | 75% |
| 16.11 Women aged 50 and older who have received a clinical breast examination and a mammogram within the preceding 1-2 years. | 60% |
| 17.23 Proportion of people with diabetes who have an annual dilated eye exam. | 70% |
| 18.8 Proportion of HIV-infected people who know their serostatus. | 80% |
| 19.14 Proportion of primary care providers and mental health care providers who provide appropriate counseling on the prevention of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. | 75% |
