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Healthy People 2010

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Healthy People 2010,
a government-sponsored statement of national health objectives in 28 focus areas designed to identify and reduce the most significant preventable health threats within the United States. The overall goals of the program are to increase the quality and length of life and to eliminate health disparities.


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Department of Health and Human Services' Healthy People 2010 agenda, Berlin's report gives the nation an overall grade of "unsatisfactory.
Finally, in the Healthy People 2010 Report that documents national objectives in United States, the objective is to reduce past month tobacco use by students in grades 9 through 12 from a 1999 baseline of 40% to 21% by 2010, reduce past month cigarette use from 35% to 16%, past month spit tobacco use from 8% to 1% and past month cigar use from 18% to 8% (USDHHS, 2001).
A citywide initiative called Healthy Nashville 2010 is a part of the larger HHS Healthy People 2010 project.
 
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