The Healthy People 2030 framework was recommended based on the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives for 2030. The mission of the framework is to promote, strengthen, and evaluate the nation’s efforts to improve the health and well-being of all people. The vision is a society in which all people can achieve their full potential for health and well-being across their lifespan. Achieving the broad goals and ambitions of HP2030 requires setting, working toward, and achieving a wide variety of much more specific goals, herein referred to as overarching goals.
The first goal is to attain high-quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death. The other overarching goal is to achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups. Thirdly, the HP2030 framework seeks to create social and physical environments that promote good health for all. The last overarching goal is to promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors across all life stages.
There are three main epidemiological methods, descriptive, analytic, and experimental. Descriptive epidemiology focuses on the distribution of diseases and determinants. It helps describe variations in disease frequency among a population, within a geographic area, and over a defined period. Person, place, and time characterize the descriptive epidemiological approach. The analytic method of epidemiology studies the association between a particular exposure and a disease. It uses information collected from individuals rather than the aggregate population.
Experimental epidemiology is inclined to the relationships of various factors that determine the frequency and distribution of disease within a given region. This approach supports overarching goals by helping epidemiologists understand how various factors interact to predict the frequency and distribution of disease. Through this epidemiological practice and method, epidemiologists have managed to improve the quality of health, protect patients from preventable diseases and reduce the rate of premature deaths. MLA