The Healthy People 2020
The Healthy People 2020 document identifies three key overarching areas to improve the health of Americans: workforce, data and information systems, and public health organizations. Choose one objective listed in Exhibit 7-1 in the textbook, and propose one strategy to achieve the goal of the objective. Suggest at least one reason why your proposed strategy would be effective. There are a number of other components that need to be considered in better understanding how to build infrastructure. First, it is important for leaders to assess the health of the people in their service areas on a regular basis so that their human services systems are more responsive to emerging health and mental health needs of the public. It is for this reason that the development of model service standards and assessment tools becomes important to a nimble public health and human services system. Public health leaders have pointed out over the years that assessment methods and strategies have been a real strength of the public health system.
