Healthy Clark County 2010
Understanding and improving
health is part of the Healthy People 2010 initiative sponsored
by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It contains detailed
descriptions of 467 objectives to improve health.
For the past two decades, Healthy People 2010
has been used as a strategic management tool for the Federal Government,
States, communities, and many other public and private sector partners.
Virtually all States, the District of Columbia, and Guam have developed
their own Healthy People plans modeled after the national plan. Most
states have tailored the national objectives to their specific needs:
- Addressing the challenge of health improvement is a shared responsibility
that requires the active participation and leadership not only of the Federal
Government and States, but local governments, policymakers, health
care providers, professionals, business executives, educators, community
leaders, and the public as well.
An important goal of the Health People
2010 process is to translate Healthy People 2010 into state and
local action. "The success of the program will be determined
by state and local health departments, and the extent to which they
build on the foundation that is laid by this document"
- Southern Nevada Health District worked, using
Healthy People 2010 as guide, to "create an infrastructure
for sustained, coordinated, interdisciplinary planning to improve
public health in Clark County by 2010."
The following areas do not currently meet the Healthy People 2010 objectives and are priority areas to improve upon for the Health District.
Southern Nevada Health District 2010
Priority Areas
- Establish culturally appropriate
and linguistically competent programs, which address the health needs of the entire Clark County community by promoting an environment that is accepting of individual differences and disabilities.
- Increase access to care
- Improve bioterrorism response infrastructure
- Establish a chronic disease epidemiology surveillance program
- Improve access to data
- Increase use of research and evaluation in programs
- Reduce second hand smoke exposure
- Increase food safety education
- Reduce tuberculosis infection rates
- Reduce drowning in 0-4 age group
- Reduce suicide rate
- Increase seatbelt use among adolescents
- Increase child restraint use in minority populations
- Decrease low birth weight rate
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